>Q:"Do you know of any [Native American] names for the ferret? or any
>   really cool names?"
>A: Cool, like Ice, Snowball, Frosty, Cool Hand Dook, or Mr. Freeze?
 
My older male has a cool name in Inuktitut (i.e. eskimo): Qannik or snow in
English.  I found it in a print dictionary.  One of my female a silver
mitt, Mukluk, has a native name for boots that was adopted by the English
and French languages.
 
>[Moderator's note: And let's not forget Bob Church's list of nicknames and
>translations, still available from the FML server as FERRET NICKNAME.  BIG]
 
My web page has the Ferret Nicknames, compiled by Bob Church:
http://www.storm.ca/~ferret/bchurch1.shtml
 
Lorraine Tremblay & Marc Lavergne
Webmistress of Mustela Canada
Webmestre de Mustela Francia
http://www.storm.ca/~ferret
[Posted in FML issue 2531]