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Algonquin, -kin, n. and a.|ælˈgɒŋkɪn|
[a. F. Algonquin, perh. contracted f. Algoumequin (17th c.). In Micmac algoomeaking or -making means ‘at the place of spearing fish and eels’.]
A. n.
1. An Indian of a people encountered in the districts of Ottawa and Quebec; also used as collect. sing., this people.
2. More widely = Algonquian n.
3. The language of this people.
B. adj. Pertaining to any of the above.
1625Purchas Pilgrims IV. 1607 The Estechemins, Algoumequins, and Mountainers. 1667Tracy in Fernow N.Y. Documents (1853) III. 151 By our authority wee haue hindred the Algonquins from making warre upon them [sc. the Dutch]. 1698L. Hennepin New Discov. Contin. xxiv. 95 The Algoncains; orig. les Algonkains. 1705Beverley Virginia iii. 24 A sort of general Language, like what Lahontan calls the Algonkine. 1705J. Harris Navigantium II. 909/2 [We] made towards them, crying out in the Iroquese and Algonquin Languages. 1765Exped. Henry Bouquet (1868) 153 Nipissins, Algonquins, living towards the heads of the Ottawa river. 1778T. Hutchins Topogr. Descr. Virginia etc. 67 Alagonkins. 1845H. R. Schoolcraft Onéota 171 The Algonquin tribes. 1851― Ind. Tribes U.S. I. 306 Their language is pure Algonquin. 1865Parkman Pioneers of France in Wks. (1899) I. xii. 383 This neighborhood was the seat of the principal Indian population of the river [Ottawa], ancestors of the modern Ottawas..Usually called Algoumequins, or Algonquins, by Champlain and other early writers,—a name now always used in a generic sense to designate a large family of cognate tribes. 1867― Jesuits N. Amer. in Ibid. II. 4 Tribes speaking various Algonquin languages and dialects. 1884C. G. Leland (title) The Algonquin Legends of New England, or Myths and Folk Lore of the Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot Tribes. 1949J. Brodrick Proc. Saints 199 She composed..a prayer book in Algonquin. |