assapan

== English == === Etymology === From Eastern Algonquian, probably Powhatan, first recorded as assapanick in 1612. === Noun === assapan (plural assapans) (Southern US, now uncommon) A southern flying squirrel (Glaucomys volans), found in the southern and eastern United States. Synonym: assapanick 1896, Brehm's Life of animals, translated from the third German edition by Pechuel-Loesche, Haacke and Schmidtlein, page 312: A very keen observation, prolonged for some time, is necessary to follow an Assapan at all, to distinguish and understand the purport of its different movements, […] 1909, Wallace Rice, Animals: a popular natural history of wild beasts, page 66: Assapans are fond of living in colonies, and where they have not been disturbed come together in great numbers for what can be no other purpose than play. === References === == Finnish == === Etymology === < English assapan === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈɑsːɑpɑn/, [ˈɑ̝s̠ːɑ̝pɑ̝n] Rhymes: -ɑsːɑpɑn Syllabification(key): as‧sa‧pan Hyphenation(key): as‧sa‧pan === Noun === assapan (dated) synonym of amerikanliito-orava (“Glaucomys volans”) ==== Declension ====