Editing Passenger pigeon (section)

===Etymology===
The genus name, ''Ectopistes'', translates as "moving about" or "wandering", while the specific name, ''migratorius'', indicates its [[bird migration|migratory]] habits.<ref name="Atkinson">{{cite book |last=Atkinson |first=G. E. |title=The Passenger Pigeon |editor=Mershon, W. B |publisher=The Outing Publishing Co |location=New York |year=1907 |page=188 |url=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:The_Passenger_Pigeon_-_Mershon.djvu/221}}</ref> The full binomial can thus be translated as "migratory wanderer". The English common name "passenger pigeon" derives from the French word ''{{lang|fr|passager}}'', which means "to pass by" in a fleeting manner.<ref name="Fuller 2014 30–47"/><ref>{{cite web |last=Harper |first=D. |title=Passenger (n.) |website=Online Etymology Dictionary |year=2012 |url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/passenger |access-date=April 23, 2013}}</ref> While the pigeon was extant, the name "passenger pigeon" was used interchangeably with "wild pigeon".<ref name="Schorger251">{{cite book |last1=Schorger |first1=A. W. |author-link=Arlie W. Schorger |title=The Passenger Pigeon: Its Natural History and Extinction |publisher=[[University of Wisconsin Press]] |year=1955 |location=Madison, WI |isbn=978-1-930665-96-5}} p. 251.<!--Please keep page number outside the cite template so that sfns with other page numbers can use the full citation. --></ref> The bird also gained some less-frequently used names, including blue pigeon, merne rouck pigeon, wandering long-tailed dove, and wood pigeon. In the 18th century, the passenger pigeon was known as ''tourte'' in [[New France]] (in modern Canada), but to the French in Europe it was known as ''tourtre''. In modern French, the bird is known as ''tourte voyageuse'' or ''pigeon migrateur'', among other names.<ref name="Schorger2523">{{Harvnb|Schorger|1955|pp=252–253}}</ref>

In the Native American [[Algonquian languages]], the pigeon was called ''amimi'' by the [[Lenape language|Lenape]], ''{{lang|oj|omiimii}}'' by the [[Anishinaabe language|Ojibwe]], and ''{{lang|mia|mimia}}'' by the [[Kaskaskia]] [[Miami-Illinois language|Illinois]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Tatum |first=J. |author2=Rementer, J. |author3=the Culture Preservation Committee |title=Extinct Birds the Lenape Knew |website=Culture and History of the Delaware Tribe |publisher=[[Delaware Tribe of Indians]] |year=2010 |url=https://delawaretribe.org/blog/2013/06/27/extinct-birds-the-lenape-knew/ |access-date=October 8, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006163804/http://culture.delawaretribe.org/extinctbirds.htm |archive-date=October 6, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Omiimii |website=Ojibwe People's Dictionary |publisher=Department of American Indian Studies, [[University of Minnesota]] |url=https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/omiimii-na |access-date=March 2, 2012}}</ref><ref name="Costa">{{cite web |last1=Costa |first1=D. J. |title=The St. Jérôme Dictionary of Miami-Illinois |website=Papers of the 36th Algonquian Conference |editor-first=H. C. |editor-last=Wolfart |location=Winnipeg |publisher=[[University of Manitoba]] |year=2005 |pages=107{{ndash}}133 |url=http://myaamiacenter.org/MCResources/costa_biblio/st_jerome_dictionary_costa.pdf |access-date=April 23, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160611143937/http://myaamiacenter.org/MCResources/costa_biblio/st_jerome_dictionary_costa.pdf |archive-date=June 11, 2016}}</ref> Other names in [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|indigenous American]] languages include ''{{lang|moh|ori'te}}'' in [[Mohawk language|Mohawk]], and ''{{lang|cho|putchee nashoba}}'', or "lost dove", in [[Choctaw language|Choctaw]].<ref name="Schorger255">{{Harvnb|Schorger|1955|p=255}}</ref> The [[Seneca people]] called the pigeon ''{{lang|see|jahgowa}}'', meaning "big bread", as it was a source of food for their tribes.<ref name="Fuller 2014 72–88"/> Chief [[Simon Pokagon]] of the [[Potawatomi]] stated that his people called the pigeon ''{{lang|pot|O-me-me-wog}}'', and that the Europeans did not adopt native names for the bird, as it reminded them of their domesticated pigeons, instead calling them "wild" pigeons, as they called the native peoples "wild" men.<ref name="Fuller 2014 150–161">{{Harvnb|Fuller|2014|pp=150–161}}</ref>