Acadia

Acadia - Acadia, sometimes Cadie or Kaddy, is the Mi’kmaq equivalent of region, field, ground, land or place, the place of; and when joined to an adjective, it denotes that the place referred to is the appropriate or special place of the object expressed by the noun or noun-adjective. In the Mi’kmaq language adjectives of this kind are formed by suffixing "a" or "wa" to the noun.

As an example: Segubbun is the Mi’kmaq name for ground nut. Segubbuna, of or relating to ground nuts. SegubbunaKaddy, is the place or region of ground nuts. This gives us the place name of "Shubenacadie".

The Wolastoqiyik Aboriginals used the word "quoddy" for "Kaddy" as it occurs in the place name "Passamaquoddy".

Acadia included the greater part of Maine, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, and was known as "the Duke's territory" and later as "the King's territory", it was also sometimes called "the province of Sagadahock".
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