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As⋅sin⋅i⋅boin

  [uh-sin-uh-boin]
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–noun, plural -boins, (especially collectively) -boin.
1. a member of a Siouan people of northeastern Montana and adjacent parts of Canada.
2. the dialect of Dakota spoken by the Assiniboin Indians.
Origin:
1675–85; < CanF Assiniboine < Ojibwa (Saulteaux dial.) assini⋅-pwa⋅n lit., stone Sioux (equiv. to Proto-Algonquian *aʔsenyi stone + *pwa⋅θa enemy tribesman)
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As·sin·i·boin also As·sin·i·boine   (ə-sĭn'ə-boin')   
n.   pl. Assiniboin or As·sin·i·boins also Assiniboine or As·sin·i·boines

    1. A Native American people formerly inhabiting southern Manitoba, now located in Montana, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. The Assiniboin became nomadic buffalo hunters after migrating to the northern Great Plains in the 18th century.

    2. A member of this people.

  2. The Siouan language of the Assiniboin.


[French Assiniboine, of Ojibwa origin.]
As·sin'i·boin' adj.
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