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Mal⋅e⋅cite

  [mal-uh-sahyt]
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–noun, plural -cites, (especially collectively) -cite for 1.
1. a member of a North American Indian people of southern and western New Brunswick and northern Maine.
2. the Eastern Algonquian language of the Malecite, mutually intelligible with Passamaquoddy.
Also, Maliseet.
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Mal·e·cite   (māl'ə-sīt')   
n.  Variant of Maliseet.
Mal·i·seet   (māl'ə-sēt')   
n.   pl. Maliseet or Mal·i·seets or Malecite or Mal·e·cites

    1. A Native American people inhabiting the St. John River valley in New Brunswick and northeast Maine. The Maliseet helped form the Abenaki confederacy in the mid-18th century.

    2. A member of this people.

  2. The Algonquian language of the Maliseet.


[From Micmac malisiit, one who speaks an incomprehensible language.]
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Malecite

North American Indians of the Algonquian language family who occupied the Saint John valley in what is now New Brunswick, Can., and the northeastern corner of what is now the U.S. state of Maine. Their language was closely related to that of the Passamaquoddy, and they were members of the Abenaki Confederacy, a group of Algonquian-speaking tribes organized for protection against the Iroquois Confederacy.

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