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Pemmican

2 stages from Cree to English.

Today it means a concentrated mixture of dried meat, fat, and sometimes berries, used as a durable food
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pimikan
Cree · pre-1700s
"a preserved meat and fat mixture"
from "pimii" (fat, grease), a concentrated mix of dried meat and fat
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pemmican
English · 1700s-1800s
"a concentrated food of dried meat, fat, and berries"
adopted through the fur trade in North America
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