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A⋅be⋅na⋅ki

  [ab-uh-nak-ee, ah-buh-nah-kee]
–noun, plural -kis, (especially collectively) -ki for 1.
1. a member of a grouping of American Indian peoples of southern Quebec and Maine, earlier also of New Hampshire, Vermont, and northern Massachusetts.
2. any of the Eastern Algonquian languages of the Abenaki peoples.
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Also, Abnaki.
Also called Wabanaki.
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Ab·e·na·ki   (ä'bə-nä'kē, āb'ə-nāk'ē)   
n.   pl. Abenaki or Ab·e·na·kis or Abnaki or Ab·na·kis In all senses also called Wabanaki.

    1. Any of various Native American peoples formerly inhabiting northern New England and southeast Canada, with present-day populations in Maine and southern Quebec.

    2. A member of any of these peoples.

    3. A confederacy of Abenaki and other peoples formed in the mid-18th century in opposition to the Iroquois confederacy and the English colonists.

    4. A member of this confederacy.

    1. A confederacy of Abenaki and other peoples formed in the mid-18th century in opposition to the Iroquois confederacy and the English colonists.

    2. A member of this confederacy.

  3. Either or both of the two Eastern Algonquian languages of the Abenaki peoples.


[Probably Montagnais wabanākiwek, dawn land people, Abenaki.]
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Word Origin & History

Abenaki 
Algonquian-speaking Indians of northern New England and the Maritimes, 1721, from Fr. abenaqui, from E.Abenaki wapanahki, lit. "person of the dawn land."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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