different between sagamore vs sachem

English

Etymology

First attested in the 1610s–1620s. From an Algonquian language; compare Abenaki sôgmô, sôgemô (“chief”); Penobscot sagama, sagema, sagemo, sangemo (“chief”); Mi'kmaq saqamaw (“chief”). Ultimately the same Proto-Algonquian root *sa·kima·wa as sachem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sæ??m??(?)/

Noun

sagamore (plural sagamores)

1. A chief of one or several Native American tribe(s), especially of the Algonquians.
   • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish

     Be it sagamore, sachem, or powwow.

2. (obsolete) A juice used in medicine.

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Synonyms

• sachem

Anagrams

• georamas

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.