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单词 Niantic
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Niantic

/nʌɪˈantɪk/
(also Nehantic) Now chiefly historical
noun
A member of either of two North American Indian peoples living along the coast of Rhode Island and Connecticut at the time of first European contact.
  • These peoples are distinguished as Eastern Niantic and Western Niantic respectively, and are of uncertain relationship to each other.Since the 1990s in form Nehantic also: a member of a group claiming descent from the Niantics..
adjective
Of or relating to the Niantics.

Origin

Mid 17th century; earliest use found in Roger Williams. From the names in south-eastern New England Algonquian languages of two places, and the ethnic name based on these (e.g. Narragansett Nayantakoog, plural).

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