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Abenaki

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Etymology

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From French abénaquis, either from Montagnais ouabanākionek (“people of the eastern country”)[1] or from the Western Abenaki autonym Wôbanaki or an Eastern Abenaki/Penobscot cognate of the same,[2][3] 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”).

Pronunciation

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  • (US) IPA(key): /ˌæbəˈnæ.ki/, /ˌɑbəˈnɑki/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Proper noun

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Abenaki

  1. An Algonquian First People from northeastern North America, mainly Maine and Quebec. [early 18th century][1]
    • 2000, Jan Albers, Hands on the Land: A History of the Vermont Landscape, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 57:
      The Abenaki could also be brave warriors, but like most hunter-gatherers they probably did not go looking for trouble.
  2. A complex of Eastern Algonquian lects, originally spoken in what is now Maine, and Quebec, divided into Western Abenaki and Eastern Abenaki (Penobscot). [early 20th century][1]
  3. (in particular) The Western Abenaki language.

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Noun

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Abenaki (plural Abenakis or Abenaki)

  1. A member of this Algonquian First People. [early 18th century][1]

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Adjective

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Abenaki (not comparable)

  1. Related or pertaining to the Abenaki people or language. [early 19th century][1]
    • 2008, Toni Morrison, A Mercy, Chatto & Windus, page 37:
      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.

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References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Lesley Brown, editor (1933), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, published 2003, →ISBN, page 3
  2. ^ “Abenaki”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  3. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “Abenaki”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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