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neshtow
[< Algonk.: Cree]
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
See quotes. Also neestau, neestow, nistow.
Quotations
1909
At 5:30 next morning we hear the familiar "Nistow! Nistow!" of the awakened camp. This word literally means "brother-in-law," but it is the vocative used by the Cree in speaking to anybody he feels kindly toward.
1922
We soon became fast Friends and called one another Neshtow (meaning brother-in-law), an Indian term of endearment.
1935
In the sleeping cars officials of fur-trading companies sat cheek by jowl with dark-skinned "neestaus," weather-tanned trappers, Assyrian peddlers.
1965
[[They] will spend the summer on Indian reserves in a social aid project called Neestow (Cree for "brother-in-law").]