Abnaki
/abˈnaki
/(also Abenaki /abəˈnaki/)
noun (plural same or Abnakis)
1A member of an American Indian people of Maine and southern Quebec.Also, the Abenakis and other Native American societies injected a volatile element in the economic and military relations between the competing empires....
- The reader may well sympathize with the general, especially when Anderson puts in a reminder about William Henry but says nothing about why British soldiers at Louisbourg are getting killed by Micmacs and Abenakis… and Acadians.
- In the east, the French supported the Abenakis, who fought against New England to preserve their land.
2 [mass noun] Either or both of the two extinct Algonquian languages (Eastern Abnaki and Western Abnaki) of the Abnaki.The Penobscot dialect of Eastern Abnaki is extinct....
- Penobscot (Eastern Abnaki, Penawahpskewi, Penobscott) Language: Abnaki is an Algonquian language spoken today by only a few elders in Canada.
- They are part of the Algonquian language family that, in Quebec, includes the Montagnais-Naskapi, Micmac, Malecite, and Abenaki.
adjective
Relating to the Abnaki or their language.The name Eskimo was given to these people by neighboring Abnaki Indians and means ‘eaters of raw flesh.’...
- Being of Abnaki background himself, Perkins wanted to immerse himself in the forest lore.
- Alanis Obomsawin was born on Abenaki territory in Lebanon, New Hampshire on August 31, 1932.
Origin
From French Abénaqui, from Montagnais ouabanăkionek 'people of the eastern land'.