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Algonquin

//ælˈɡɑːŋk(w)ɪn// name, noun

Definitions

Adjective

1
of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language wordnet

Proper Noun

1
The language spoken by the Algonquins, a transitional language between Ojibwe and Abenaki.
2
A place name:; A community in Augusta township, United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, Ontario, Canada.
3
A place name:; A place in the United States:; A village in McHenry County and Kane County, Illinois.
4
A place name:; A place in the United States:; A township in McHenry County, Illinois.
5
A place name:; A place in the United States:; A neighbourhood of Louisville, Kentucky.

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A place name:; A place in the United States:; A census-designated place in Dorchester County, Maryland.
7
A place name:; A place in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Bohemia Township, Ontonagon County, Michigan.

Noun

1
A member of an aboriginal North American people closely related to the Odawa and Ojibwe, and living mainly in Quebec.
2
family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains wordnet
3
a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Canadian French algonquin, from earlier algoumequin, from either Maliseet elakómkwik ("these are our relatives") or Mi'kmaq algoomeaking (“at the place of spearing fish and eels”).

Etymology 2

From Canadian French algonquin, from earlier algoumequin, from either Maliseet elakómkwik ("these are our relatives") or Mi'kmaq algoomeaking (“at the place of spearing fish and eels”).

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