Abnaki

American  

[ab-nak-ee, -nah-kee] / æbˈnæk i, -ˈnɑ ki /

noun

Abnakis plural

1. Abenaki.

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Abnaki British  

/ æbˈnɑːkɪ /

noun

1. a member of a North American Indian people formerly living in Maine and Quebec

2. the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family

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Example Sentences

Masta, chief of the Abnaki, residing near Pierreville, Quebec.

From Sign Language Among North American Indians Compared With That Among Other Peoples And Deaf-Mutes First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-1880, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 263-552 by Mallery, Garrick

They made attempts to christianize the Micmacs of Acadia, the Abnaki of the upper St John, the Algonquin tribes of the lower St Lawrence, and the Nipissings of the upper Ottawa.

From The Jesuit Missions : A chronicle of the cross in the wilderness by Marquis, Thomas Guthrie

It is from the Abnaki, sa'ghede'aki, "land at the mouth."

From Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 01 by Otis, Charles P. (Charles Pomeroy)

Volume 1, pp. 1-573 contains prefatory remarks, description of the alphabet used, synopsis of the Abnaki language, including brief grammatic remarks, a table of abbreviations, and the Abnaki-English dictionary from A to H, inclusive.

From Catalogue Of Linguistic Manuscripts In The Library Of The Bureau Of Ethnology. (1881 N 01 / 1879-1880 (Pages 553-578)) by Pilling, James Constantine

In 1666 Father Gabriel Druillettes, 'the patriarch' of the Abnaki mission, who had already borne the Cross to the Crees of the north, began his labours among the Algonquins of Georgian Bay and Lake Superior.

From The Jesuit Missions : A chronicle of the cross in the wilderness by Marquis, Thomas Guthrie