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wampumpeag

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wam⋅pum⋅peag

  [wom-puhm-peeg, wawm-]
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–noun
wampum.
Origin:
1620–30, Americanism; earlier also wampampeak, wampompeage < Massachusett (c. Eastern Abenaki wάpαpəyak wampum beads; equiv. to Proto-Algonquian *wa⋅p- white + *-a⋅py- string + *-aki pl. suffix)
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wam·pum·peag   (wŏm'pəm-pēg', wôm'-)   
n.  White shell beads used as wampum.

[Massachusett.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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