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Abenaki en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˌɑbəˈnɑki/ (US)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˌæbəˈnæ.ki/ (US)

Etymology

From French abénaquis, either from Montagnais ouabanākionek (“people of the eastern country”) or from the Western Abenaki autonym Wôbanaki (whence also the English calque Dawnland) or an Eastern Abenaki/Penobscot cognate of the same, from Algonquin. Ultimately a compound word meaning "people of the east" or "people of the dawn-land", from Proto-Algonquian *wa·panki (“dawn”) + *askyi (“land”).

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Related or pertaining to the Abenaki people or language.
   • I am to walk left, westward on the Abenaki trail which I will know by the sapling bent into the earth with one sprout growing skyward. 2008, Toni Morrison, A Mercy, Chatto & Windus, page 37:

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Wiktionary’s coverage of Abenaki terms

Translations (6)

de abenakisch (related to the Abenaki people or language) · pt abenaki (related to the Abenaki people or language) · fr abénaqui (related to the Abenaki people or language) · fr abénaquis (related to the Abenaki people or language) · pl abenacki (related to the Abenaki people or language) · mr आबेनाकी (related to the Abenaki people or language)

Abenaki en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˌɑbəˈnɑki/ (US)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˌæbəˈnæ.ki/ (US)

Etymology

From French abénaquis, either from Montagnais ouabanākionek (“people of the eastern country”) or from the Western Abenaki autonym Wôbanaki (whence also the English calque Dawnland) or an Eastern Abenaki/Penobscot cognate of the same, from Algonquin. Ultimately a compound word meaning "people of the east" or "people of the dawn-land", from Proto-Algonquian *wa·panki (“dawn”) + *askyi (“land”).

Meanings

1. A member of an Algonquian First People from northeastern North America, mainly Maine and Quebec.
   • The Abenaki could also be brave warriors, but like most hunter-gatherers they probably did not go looking for trouble. 2000, Jan Albers, Hands on the Land: A History of the Vermont Landscape, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 57:

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Translations (3)

mr आबेनाकी (member of the Algonquian people) · de Abenaki (member of the Algonquian people) · pl Abenak (member of the Algonquian people)

Abenaki en · PROPN

Pronunciation

• /ˌɑbəˈnɑki/ (US)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˌæbəˈnæ.ki/ (US)

Etymology

From French abénaquis, either from Montagnais ouabanākionek (“people of the eastern country”) or from the Western Abenaki autonym Wôbanaki (whence also the English calque Dawnland) or an Eastern Abenaki/Penobscot cognate of the same, from Algonquin. Ultimately a compound word meaning "people of the east" or "people of the dawn-land", from Proto-Algonquian *wa·panki (“dawn”) + *askyi (“land”).

Meanings

1. A complex of Eastern Algonquian lects, originally spoken in what is now Maine, and Quebec, divided into Western Abenaki and Eastern Abenaki (Penobscot).
2. (in particular) The Western Abenaki language.
   • The manuscript was written in 1750 by Father Joseph Aubery, a Jesuit priest from France assigned to the Saint-François-de-Sales Roman Catholic mission from 1709 until he died in 1756. It's one of the few and earliest documents available in Aln8ba8dwaw8gan, the Abenaki language. 2019 July 20, Ka’nhehsí:io Deer, “Restoration of 18th-century choir book in Abenaki language may help revitalization efforts”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2022:

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Deriveds

Abenakian · abenakiite

Translations (6)

fr abénaqui (language) · de Abenaki (language) · sv abenakiska (language) · mr आबेनाकी (language) · fr abénaquis (language) · pl język abenacki (language)