Abenaki

//ˌæbəˈnæ.ki// adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Related or pertaining to the Abenaki people or language. not-comparable

    "I am to walk left, westward on the Abenaki trail which I will know by the sapling bent into the earth with one sprout growing skyward."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A complex of Eastern Algonquian lects, originally spoken in what is now Maine, and Quebec, divided into Western Abenaki and Eastern Abenaki (Penobscot).
  2. 2
    The Western Abenaki language.

    "The manuscript was written in 1750 by Father Joseph Aubery, a Jesuit priest from France assigned to the Saint-François-de-Sales Roman Catholic mission from 1709 until he died in 1756. It's one of the few and earliest documents available in Aln8ba8dwaw8gan, the Abenaki language."

Noun
  1. 1
    A member of an Algonquian First People from northeastern North America, mainly Maine and Quebec.

    "The Abenaki could also be brave warriors, but like most hunter-gatherers they probably did not go looking for trouble."

  2. 2
    a member of the Algonquian people of Maine and southern Quebec wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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”).

Etymology 3

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”).

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