Abenaki

[ ab-uh-nak-ee, ah-buh-nah-kee ]

/ ˌæb əˈnæk i, ˌɑ bəˈnɑ ki /

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noun, plural A·be·na·kis, (especially collectively) A·be·na·ki for 1.

a member of a grouping of American Indian peoples of southern Quebec and Maine, earlier also of New Hampshire, Vermont, and northern Massachusetts.

any of the Eastern Algonquian languages of the Abenaki peoples.

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Also Abnaki.

Also called Wabanaki.

Words nearby Abenaki

He was Abenaki by his mother; but he was absent when the attack took place, and the marauders seem to have shed no blood.
A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I|Francis Parkman
He had the gift of tongues, and was as familiar with the Abenaki and several other Indian languages as he was with Latin.
A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I|Francis Parkman
On the banks of this erratic stream lived an Abenaki tribe called the Sokokis.
A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I|Francis Parkman
I advise you to pull down all the forts you have built on the Abenaki lands since the Peace of Utrecht.
A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I|Francis Parkman

English activity alarmed the Abenaki and the French soon influenced them to go on the warpath.
The Colonization of North America|Herbert Eugene Bolton