"Raccoon" has Native American origins.

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A North American animal whose name has Native American origins.
The word for "raccoon" was among the Powhatan words first recorded by English colonists at Jamestown, variously spelled aroughcun, arathkone or rahaugcum. (The Spanish word for "raccoon," mapache, comes from the Nahuatl/Aztec names for the creature, mapachin or mapachtli.)

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