Abenaki

abenaki English + language Alternative forms Eastern Abenaki Abnaki Western Abenaki Wabnaki Abenaki confederacy Waponahki Etymology From en fr abénaquis, either from en moe ouabanākionek people of the eastern countryLesley Brown The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary 1933 5th 2003 Oxford University Press Oxford, UK 978-0-19-860575-1 3 or from the Western en abe - autonym abe Wôbanaki (whence also the English calque en Dawnland) or an Eastern Abenaki/en aaq - cognate of the same, from en alq -. Ultimately a compound word meaning "people of the east" or "people of the dawn-land", from en alg-pro - alg-pro *wa·panki dawn *askyi land 1. Pronunciation en /ˌæbəˈnæ.ki/ /ˌɑbəˈnɑki/ US en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Abenaki.wav Southern England Noun s * A member of an Algonquian First People from northeastern North America, mainly Maine and Quebec. early 18th century en Jan Albers Hands on the Land: A History of the Vermont Landscape 2000 MIT Press 57 https://books.google.com/books?id=8N8MAAAAYAAJ&q=%22the+Abenaki%22&dq=%22the+Abenaki%22&hl=en&cd=16&source=gbs_api 978-0-262-01175-4 The Abenaki could also be brave warriors, but like most hunter-gatherers they probably did not go looking for trouble. Translations member of the Algonquian people Finnish: fi abenaki German: de Abenaki m Marathi: mr आबेनाकी m Polish: pl Abenak m Proper noun A complex of Eastern Algonquian lects, originally spoken in what is now Maine, and Quebec, divided into Western Abenaki and Eastern Abenaki (Penobscot). early 20th century en in particular The Western Abenaki language. en Ka’nhehsí:io Deer Restoration of 18th-century choir book in Abenaki language may help revitalization efforts w:CBC News 2019-07-20 https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/abenaki-language-choir-book-restoration-1.5216596 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. https://web.archive.org/web/20220628195610/https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/abenaki-language-choir-book-restoration-1.5216596 Derived terms en Abenakian abenakiite Translations language French: fr abénaqui, fr abénaquis m German: de Abenaki n Marathi: mr आबेनाकी f Polish: pl język abenacki m Swedish: sv abenakiska c Adjective - Related or pertaining to the Abenaki people or language. early 19th century en 2008 Toni Morrison A Mercy Chatto & Windus 37 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. Translations related to the Abenaki people or language French: fr abénaqui, fr abénaquis m German: de abenakisch rare Marathi: mr आबेनाकी Polish: pl abenacki Portuguese: pt abenaki See also abe References Further reading Western Abenaki abe Eastern Abenaki aaq (Penobscot, extinct) Anagrams en aabeikn ikebana in a bake en Native American tribes