单词 | Micmac |
释义 | Micmac/ˈmɪkmak /(also Mi'kmaq) noun (plural same or Micmacs) 1A member of an American Indian people inhabiting the Maritime Provinces of Canada.The part of Acadia between the Bay of Fundy and the St Lawrence became disputed territory, claimed by Mi'kmaqs, Maliseets, and Abenakis, supported by the French....
2 [mass noun] The Algonquian language of the Micmac, now with fewer than 8,000 speakers.A productive borrowing from Micmac through French is toboggan, a runnerless wooden sled still used by children....
adjective Relating to the Micmac or their language.Champlain singled out this site as early as 1608, one reason being that from a cape, cannons could be installed to control the narrows of this river leading upstream to the Great Lakes (‘Quebec’ means ‘narrows’ in the Micmac language)....
OriginVia French from Micmac. |
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