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Nanticoke

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[ nan-ti-kohk ]
/ ˈnæn tɪˌkoʊk /
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noun, plural Nan·ti·cokes, (especially collectively) Nan·ti·coke for 1, 3.
a member of an Indigenous North American people who have traditionally inhabited Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.
the Algonquian language of the Nanticoke.
a member of a group of people of southern Delaware with mixed white, Black, and Indigenous ancestry.
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Origin of Nanticoke

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First recorded in 1640–50; from Nanticoke (an Eastern Algonquian language), the name of a place once inhabited by the tribe

Other definitions for Nanticoke (2 of 2)

Nanticoke2
[ nan-ti-kohk or, for 1, -koh ]
/ ˈnæn tɪˌkoʊk or, for 1, -ˌkoʊ /

noun
a city in SE Ontario, in S Canada, on Lake Erie.
a city in E Pennsylvania.
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