Talk:Muskeg

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Sources of information: What on Earth is Muskeg?

pronunciation?
Musk-eg or Mus-keg?


 * Musk-egg WilyD 18:47, 13 January 2006 (UTC)


 * I've only ever pronounced it or heard it pronounced "MUSS-keg".


 * Pazouzou (talk) 02:13, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Free-floating Muskeg
I think this article sohuld meniton the phenomenom of pieces of floating Muskeg breaking off and floating out into the water, forming small floating islands. Does anyone know if this phenomenom has a name? When I was younger I lived near a lake which had an extensive floating muskeg at one either end, and seasonal winds would cause independent pieces of the muskeg to float from one end of the lake to the other. Walkersam 00:48, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

Added sections
and removed tag. Discovered article while working on "hanging swamp". Julia Rossi (talk) 08:00, 25 March 2008 (UTC)

Algonkian loanwords
Muskeg is a cree word, right? The origin and meaning of the word should be noted at the top of the article, I should think.

Pazouzou (talk) 02:18, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

I did the best I could:

Algonquin with the subbranches Ottawa, Ojibwan, Potawatomi and as previously mentioned Cree, (possible related etymologies: Masquigon, Omushkegon, Muskogee, Muskegon)(In Potawatomi Mus-keeg-guaac means "sunfish", however "Gigos" is fishes; so a better translation for Mus-kee-Guaac is "Mousse-Cake-Fish" ("Mousse" meaning marsh in French and "cake" being the the English translation of the Duitsh-Frisian woerdte "Koek" or "Kooge"- tract of land.)  Please see Algonquin loanwords for further information.

One theory suggests that there may be some shared etymology because of Frisian Vikings. This theory is further supported by the frozen port theory (a theory which suggests that the Northern ports were frozen at the time Leif Ericson explored the new world)...   However, the usage of the word Muskeg is not frequently used on the Atlantic side of Canadia (see above)...  Perhaps they traveled further inland to Vinland (wine land).

Another theory suggests that it could be a remnant of Huguenot influence upon Native Peoples in the 17th Century... Many of these tribes existed and do exist close to the Quebecoise...  Perhaps missionaries brought this name to the Muskogee...   The protestant spelling of Moses in the 15th century was "von Mose" the loss of the "e" (lenition) was quite common at the time. Combined with the "Koek or Kooge" (Dutch/Frisian) - Marsh-Cakees (employer employee) or wetlandees people of the Marsh Lands. Perhaps they thought they were Moors instead of Indians...

Both theories may be true. Just read Carl Sandburg.

Please challenge and explore these theories. I would like to know the truth as well... My name is Mushorn which I translate as "marsh or moss" "corner". Most likely similar in construction to Musholm which I translate as "marsh or moss" "island". I have several questions, "If Cree doesn't use the letter "u", how can Muskeg be Cree?" Is it a colonial Native-American-Indian loanword or a loanword of Native-American-Indian colonialism?

Badly Captioned Images
Image caption is as follows: Heavy equipment breaking through thawing muskeg in Wabasca Oil Field in Alberta. This should be Heavy equipment broke through thawing muskeg in Wabasca Oil Field in Alberta. Ie it broke the surface of the ground and partial sank, whereas breaking through infers that it was being dug out. Gorilla (talk) 08:57, 23 March 2012 (UTC)

Non-encyclopedic language style used in description
The language used to describe muskeg is not written in the required encyclopedic writing style. It is also inaccurate. There is certainly nothing "unearthly" about it, comparisons to bonsai trees inappropriate, and moose are highly adapted to muskeg. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 204.40.130.133 (talk) 15:48, 26 January 2017 (UTC)


 * @204.40.130.133 I came to the talk section to lodge this exact observation. "closer look reveals a bizarre and almost unearthly landscape" is very out of place. Qu1xand (talk) 14:16, 16 October 2022 (UTC)

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Is the Russian interwiki correct?
The current Russian interwiki is Сфагновые болота - I'm not sure it fully, or at all, corresponds to "muskeg". I'd be grateful for experts to check! --CopperKettle (talk) 04:33, 26 May 2023 (UTC)