What does "pequot" mean?

A member of a tribe of Native Americans who historically inhabited eastern Connecticut and spoke a variety of Mohegan-Pequot.

Pequot

Common synonyms include: algonquian language, historical pequot, indigenous, indigenous language, native american, pequot community.

/ˈpiːˌkwɒt/ name, noun

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Noun

1
A member of a tribe of Native Americans who historically inhabited eastern Connecticut and spoke a variety of Mohegan-Pequot.

Proper Noun

Attested in English since the 1620s/1630s, from Narragansett Pequttôog (“people of the shoals”) (compare Abenaki pôgwa (“shallow, shoal”)).