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Dawnland
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English
Etymology
From en dawn land.
In reference to New England, en abe 1 Wôbanaki, see en Abenaki for more.
In reference to Japan, from the Fandom site "The Anglish Moot", a en ja 日本 1.
Proper noun
A real or mythical place where the dawn first breaks and the day begins, from a given perspective or frame of reference.
en 1887 John Holmes Agnew Walter Hilliard Bidwell The Eclectic Magazine 466 the damsel Bolina, [and] the nymph Arethusa [prayed and] Diana opened a secret passage for her under the earth and sea, All which merely means, if we may believe Sir G. Cox, "that she fled to the Dawnland where Eos closes as she begins the day, and where the sun again greets the love whom he has lost."
en New England, in Native American (especially Abenaki) contexts. Sometimes particularly with regard to it being the homeland of the Abenaki, and thus sometimes functionally meaning "Abenaki". Occasionally uncapitalized: en dawnland.
en 2003 Historical New Hampshire Dawnland Encounters : Indians and Europeans in Northern New England (Hanover, N.H .: University Press of New England, 1991), 12.
en 2014-09-01 Siobhan Senier Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England U of Nebraska Press 9780803246867 14 [see title]
en 2017-01-01 Jeffers Lennox Homelands and Empires: Indigenous Spaces, Imperial Fictions, and Competition for Territory in Northeastern North America, 16901763 University of Toronto Press 9781442614055 81 ... tension in the Dawnland. Three times since 1675 the Abenaki had pushed English settlers out of the region, which they claimed
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