Pequot
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Attested in English since the 1620s/1630s, from Narragansett Pequttôog (“people of the shoals”) (compare Abenaki pôgwa (“shallow, shoal”)).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Pequot (plural Pequots or Pequot)
- A member of a tribe of Native Americans who historically inhabited eastern Connecticut and spoke a variety of Mohegan-Pequot.
Proper noun edit
Pequot
- This tribe.
- The variety of Mohegan-Pequot spoken by this tribe.