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Toboggan

2 stages from Mi'kmaq to English.

Today it means a long, flat sled without runners, used for sliding over snow
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topaghan
Mi'kmaq · pre-1600s
"a sled"
the name for a sled made of bound wooden strips
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toboggan
English · 1700s-1800s
"a long, flat sled without runners"
adopted through contact with the Mi'kmaq people of eastern Canada
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