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adj
Related or pertaining to the Abenaki people or language.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
A complex of Eastern Algonquian lects, originally spoken in what is now Maine, and Quebec, divided into Western Abenaki and Eastern Abenaki (Penobscot).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
The Western Abenaki language.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A member of an Algonquian First People from northeastern North America, mainly Maine and Quebec.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
a member of the Algonquian people of Maine and southern Quebec
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Abnaki
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Broader terms: Algonquian, Algonquin
History
From French abénaquis, either from Montagnais ouabanākionek (“people of the eastern country”) or from the Western Abenaki autonym Wôbanaki (whence also the English calque Dawnland) or an Eastern Abenaki/Penobscot cognate of the same, from Algonquin. Ultimately a compound word meaning "people of the east" or "people of the dawn-land", from Proto-Algonquian *wa·panki (“dawn”) + *askyi (“land”).
Across languages
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