
- Carhagouha
- Garhagouha
- Karhahaonha
- Carragougha
It must be remembered that these names were recorded by people of various linguistic backgrounds from numerous oral sources with differed dialects that were then interpreted phonetically into the language of the listener. The Wendat language had no written text to compare these interpretations to and is only recently being reconstructed by a few scholars into a written format for use today.
Some scholars and others have suggested that these village names may indicate a location or provided geographic/pictorial description of the village location while other suggest that they were named after a chief or other prominent person in the community.Here are a couple of translations or interpretations for these name that I have found so far;
- The Great forest encircled town - the great palisaded fortress (A E Jones in Old Huronia - 1908)
- where there are elms (John Steckley in Words of the Huron - 2007)
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