different between sachem vs sachel

English

Etymology

First attested in the 1620s. Borrowed from Narragansett sachem; compare Unami sakima (“chief”), Mi'kmaq saqamaw (“chief”). Ultimately the same Proto-Algonquian root *sa·kima·wa as sagamore.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?se?t??m/, /?sat??m/

Noun

sachem (plural sachems)

1. The chief of a Native American tribe; a sagamore.
   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, chapter 16

     Planted with their broad ends on the deck, a circle of these slabs laced together, mutually sloped towards each other, and at the apex united in a tufted point, where the loose hairy fibres waved to and fro like the top-knot on some old Pottowottamie Sachem’s head.

   • 1983, Howard S. Russell, Indian New England Before the Mayflower (page 19)

     If a sachem was too harsh, a tribesman might leave and join another tribe.

2. (US, politics, historical) A leader in the Tammany Hall society.
   • 1983, Virgil W. Peterson, The Mob: 200 Years of Organized Crime in New York (page 4)

     Aboriginal titles were adopted and the head of each tribe was called a sachem. […] Its proprietor, Abraham Martling, was elected a sachem on several occasions and members of Tammany were often called Martling Men.

Anagrams

• mechas, samech, schame, schema

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English sachem, from an Algonquian language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?.x?m/
• Hyphenation: sa?chem

Noun

sachem m (plural sachems)

1. sachem, Native American chief [from ca. 1700]
   • 1704 January, Europische Mercurius, Vol. 15, part I, pages 82 & 83.

English

Noun

sachel (plural sachels)

1. Alternative spelling of satchel

Anagrams

• Cashel, Laches, cashel, chelas, laches

Middle English

Alternative forms

• sachell, sachelle, sacchelle, saccle, satchel, sechelle, cachel, cechelle

Etymology

From Old French sachel, from Late Latin saccellum (“money bag, purse”), a diminutive of Latin sacculus, itself a diminutive of saccus (“bag”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sat??l/

Noun

sachel (plural sachels)

1. satchel, sack

Descendants

• English: satchel

References

• “sachel, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin saccellus, from Latin sacculus, diminutive of saccus; or from sac +? -el.

Noun

sachel m (oblique plural sacheaus or sacheax or sachiaus or sachiax or sachels, nominative singular sacheaus or sacheax or sachiaus or sachiax or sachels, nominative plural sachel)

1. small bag

Derived terms

• sachelet

Descendants

• ? Middle English: sachel, sachell, sachelle, sacchelle, saccle, satchel, sechelle, cachel, cechelle
  • English: satchel