Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
name
The Algonquian language of these people, a dialect of Malecite-Passamaquoddy.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A member of an Algonquian-speaking Native American people of the Wabanaki Confederacy, indigenous to the Saint John River valley and its tributaries, crossing the borders of New Brunswick and Quebec in Canada, and Maine in the United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
From Mi'kmaq Malesse'jik (“broken talkers”) — the Mi'kmaq perceived the Maliseet as speaking a broken version of Mi'kmaq.
