Algonquian
adj 1: of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or
language [syn: Algonquian, Algonkian, Algonquin]
n 1: a member of any of the North American Indian groups
speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in
the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian
tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the
Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast [syn: Algonquian,
Algonquin]
2: family of North American Indian languages spoken from
Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains [syn:
Algonquian, Algonquin, Algonquian language]
Algonquian orAlgonquinorAlgonkian; alsoAlgonkinnounEtymology: Canadian French Algoumequin,Algonquin,
perhaps from Malecite-Passamaquoddy (Algonquian language of Maine and New
Brunswick) elakómkwik they are our relatives Date: 1625
1. (usually Algonquin)
a. an American Indian people of the Ottawa River valley b.
the dialect of Ojibwa spoken by these people
2. (usually Algonquian) a. a family of American Indian
languages spoken by peoples from Labrador to Carolina and westward into the
Great Plains b. a member of the peoples speaking Algonquian languages
algonquian adj. & n. (also Algonkian) --adj. of or relating to a large group of N. American Indian tribes. --n. 1 a member of any of these tribes. 2 any of the languages or dialects
used by them. Etymology: Algonquin people + -IAN
Algonquian adj. & n. (also Algonkian) --adj. of or relating to a large group of N. American Indian tribes. --n. 1 a member of any of these tribes. 2 any of the languages or dialects
used by them. Etymology: Algonquin people + -IAN
Algonquian
adj. & n. (also Algonkian) --adj. of or relating to a large group of
N. American Indian tribes. --n. 1 a member of any of these tribes. 2 any of
the languages or dialects used by them. [Algonquin people + -IAN]
Algonquian \Al*gon"qui*an\, a.
Pertaining to or designating the most extensive of the
linguistic families of North American Indians, their
territory formerly including practically all of Canada east
of the 115th meridian and south of Hudson's Bay and the part
of the United States east of the Mississippi and north of
Tennessee and Virginia, with the exception of the territory
occupied by the northern Iroquoian tribes. There are nearly
100,000 Indians of the Algonquian tribes, of which the
strongest are the Ojibwas (Chippewas), Ottawas, Crees,
Algonquins, Micmacs, and Blackfeet. -- n. An Algonquian
Indian.
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