Massachusett

[mas-uh-choo-sit]

noun, plural Mas·sa·chu·setts, (especially collectively) Mas·sa·chu·sett for 1.

a member of an extinct tribe of North American Indians of eastern Massachusetts.
the extinct Algonquian language of the Massachusett and Wampanoag Indians.

Also Mas·sa·chu·set, Massachusetts.

Origin of Massachusett

1610–20, Americanism; the Massachusett name of Great Blue Hill south of Boston, literally, at the big hill

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He instances the Massachusett God, Kiehtan, who created the other gods, and receives the just into heaven.
Myth, Ritual, and Religion, Vol. 1
Andrew Lang
This was afterwards attempted by the British legislature, in the case of the Massachusett's Bay.
The Complete Works in Philosophy, Politics and Morals of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin, [Vol 3 of 3]
Benjamin Franklin