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Abenaki, a. and n.|ɑːbɪˈnɑːkɪ, æbɪˈnækɪ|
Also 8–9 Abnaquis, etc.; Abnaki.
[ad. F. abénaqui, ad. E. Abenaki wαpánahki, lit. ‘person of the dawn land’.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or belonging to any of several Algonquian-speaking Indian peoples of northern New England and the Maritime provinces; some or all of these peoples collectively.
B. n.
a. (A member of) any of these peoples, distinguished by specialists as the Western Abenaki, the Eastern Abenaki, and the Abenaki (or Wabanaki) Confederacy (whose core members were the W. and E. Abenaki, the Maliseet–Passamaquoddy, and the Micmac).
b. Either of the Eastern Algonquian languages of the W. and E. Abenaki, or both taken as a subgroup or undifferentiated.
1721Mass. House of Representatives Jrnl. (1922) III. 110 My people..Summons thee to retire from off the Land of the Abnaquis. Ibid. 111 The Signature of the Nations of the Abnaquoise. 1827Spirit of Seventy-Six (Frankfort, Ky.) 8 Nov. 1/3 Wabanocky Indians squatting about in groups. 1833J. Pickering in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. I. xv 569 The reader will..pronounce the Abnaki words as a Frenchman would. 1884‘J. Laurent’ New Familiar Abenakis & Eng. Dialogues 5 It is..intended to preserve the uncultivated Abenakis language from the gradual alterations which are continually occurring. 1902[see animate a. 4 b] 1907F. W. Hodge Handbk. Amer. Indians I. 2 Abnaki... A name used by the English and French of the colonial period to designate an Algonquian confederacy centering in the present state of Maine, and by the Algonquian tribes to include all those of their own stock resident on the Atlantic seaboard, more particularly the ‘Abnaki’ in the N. and the Delawares in the S. 1912T. Michelson in 28th Ann. Rep. U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1906–7 280 The existing dialects..are Micmac,.. Passamaquoddy,.. and Abnaki. 1927L. Bloomfield in C. F. Hockett Leonard Bloomfield Anthol. (1970) 145 He transcribes the same word as Abnaki segankw. 1947R. P. T. Coffin Yankee Coast 226 These Abenakis painted their faces the colors of death..when they went on the warpath and slew the Mohawks. 1970R. Lowell Notebk. 84 We saw the burial ground of the Abenaki. 1976K. V. Teeter in T. A. Sebeok Native Lang. Amer. I. 506 The splitting of Abnaki into Eastern and Western branches follows the current practice of the principal workers in the field, Day and Siebert. 1984Christian Science Monitor 27 Apr. 30 Worumbo was a sachem of the Abenaki Indians. |