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Bayou
| Words in English from Amerindian Languages |
- Choctaw bayuk
- A term applied to many local water features in the lower mississippi river basin and in the gulf coast region of the u.s. its general meaning is a creek or secondary watercourse that is tributary to another body of water; especially a sluggish and stagnant stream that follows a winding course through alluvial lowlands, coastal swamps or river deltas. compare - oxbow, slough. gg
- Ручей, протекающий через заболоченную местность
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Протока, русский
Короткий водоток естественного происхождения, соединяющий между собой озера или озеро с рекой.
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Mississippi, английский
- Шт. миссисипи (сша)
- Р. миссисипи (сша)
Watercourse, английский
- [1] a natural or artificial channel through which water flows. [2] a stream or river. [3] a limber hole.
- Waterway,
- A subsurface opening or passage in rocks through which ground water flows.
- Водоток; русло; канал
- Межхозяйственный канал /по терминологии бюро мелиорации сша/
Especially, английский
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Buccaneer, английский
- Tupi mocaen 'grill for frying or curing meat'
- A name given to certain piratical rovers, of various european nations, who formerly infested the coasts of spanish america. they were originally inoffensive settlers in hispaniola, but were inhumanly driven from their habitations by the jealous policy of the spaniards; whence originated their implacable hatred to that nation. also, a large musketoon, about 8 feet in length, so called from having been used by those marauders.
- Specifically refers to a pirate operating in the caribbean during the so-called “golden age” (1680–1730). sometimes incorrectly used as a generic term for any pirate. see boucanier.
Axolotl, английский
Nahuatl atl 'water' + xolotl 'spirit'
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