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moccasin
1612, from an Algonquian language of Virginia, probably Powhatan
makasin
"shoe" (cognate with Ojibwa
makizin
, Narragansett
mokussin,
Micmac
m'kusun
). The venomous snake of southern U.S. is perhaps a different word.