Abenaki

See also: abenaki

English

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Abenaki language

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”).

Abenaki

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.
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]
(in particular) The Western Abenaki language.

language

Abenaki (plural Abenakis or Abenaki)

member of the Algonquian people

Abenaki (not comparable)

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.

related to the Abenaki people or language

↑ ^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
^ “Abenaki”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “Abenaki”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.