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Definition of passamaquoddy - 3 dictionary results

Pas⋅sa⋅ma⋅quod⋅dy

  [pas-uh-muh-kwod-ee]
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–noun, plural -dies, (especially collectively) -dy for 1.
1. a member of a small tribe of North American Indians formerly of coastal Maine and New Brunswick and now living in Maine.
2. the Eastern Algonquian language of the Passamaquoddy, mutually intelligible with Malecite.
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Pas·sa·ma·quod·dy   (pās'ə-mə-kwŏd'ē)   
n.   pl. Passamaquoddy or Pas·sa·ma·quod·dies

    1. A Native American people formerly inhabiting parts of coastal Maine and New Brunswick along the Bay of Fundy, with present-day descendants in eastern Maine. The Passamaquoddy helped form the Abenaki confederacy in the mid-18th century.

    2. A member of this people.

  2. The Algonquian language of the Passamaquoddy, dialectally related to Malecite.


[Of Micmac origin.]
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Passamaquoddy

Algonquian-speaking North American Indians who lived on Passamaquoddy Bay, the St. Croix River, and Schoodic Lake on the boundary between what are now Maine, U.S., and New Brunswick, Can

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