Lumbee
English edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain. Said to be first attested in reference to the tribe in 1914. Supposed by some to be of Siouan origin. Thought by others to have been coined by Turkey Tayac as a combination of Lumber (“a river that flows through the tribe's lands”) and Piscataway bee (“bend”).[1]
Noun edit
Lumbee (plural Lumbees or Lumbee)
- A member of a certain Native American tribe or group of North Carolina.
Translations edit
member of the tribe
Proper noun edit
Lumbee
- The dialect (of English) spoken by the Lumbee people.
Translations edit
the language
References edit
- ^ Malinda Maynor Lowery, Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation
Further reading edit
- Ethnologue entry for Lumbee, lmz
