Abenaki

[ uh-ben-uh-kee; English ab-uh-nak-ee, ah-buh-nah-kee ]

/ əˈbɛn ə ki; English ˌæb əˈnæk i, ˌɑ bəˈnɑ ki /

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noun, plural A·be·na·kis, (especially collectively) A·be·na·ki for 1.

a member of a grouping of Indigenous peoples of southern Quebec, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, and parts of northern Massachusetts.

any of the Eastern Algonquian languages of the Abenaki peoples.

adjective

of or relating to the Abenaki or their language.

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Also Abnaki .

Also called Wabanaki .

Origin of Abenaki

First recorded in 1690–1700; from French Abenaqui, Abenaki, from Eastern Abenaki (Penobscot ) wapánahki or Western Abenaki wɔ̃banakii, literally, “people of the dawn land, easterners,” a self-designation

Words nearby Abenaki

Abelian group, Abe Lincoln in Illinois, Abel-meholah, abelmosk, Abelson, Abenaki, abend, Abeokuta, Abercrombie, Aberdare, Aberdeen

How to use Abenaki in a sentence

He was Abenaki by his mother; but he was absent when the attack took place, and the marauders seem to have shed no blood.
A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I|Francis Parkman
He had the gift of tongues, and was as familiar with the Abenaki and several other Indian languages as he was with Latin.
A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I|Francis Parkman
On the banks of this erratic stream lived an Abenaki tribe called the Sokokis.
A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I|Francis Parkman
I advise you to pull down all the forts you have built on the Abenaki lands since the Peace of Utrecht.
A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I|Francis Parkman

English activity alarmed the Abenaki and the French soon influenced them to go on the warpath.
The Colonization of North America|Herbert Eugene Bolton