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Mohegan
[ moh-hee-guhn ]
noun
, plural Mo·he·gans, (especially collectively) Mo·he·gan
- a member of a group of Pequot Indians that broke with the Pequot and then fought against them in the Pequot War.
- an Algonquian language, the language of the Mohegan Indians.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Mohegan1
First recorded in 1700–10; self-designation of the Mohegan people; literally, “person (people) of the wolf” in Mohegan-Pequot, an extinct Algonquian language spoken in southeastern Connecticut
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Example Sentences
The first interview of Hudson with the Mohegan tribes, took place at the mouth of the river which now bears his name.
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Thus the argument derived from the Mohegan instance of the Turtle phratry is invalidated by the opposite and more numerous facts.
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This is the Mohegan name of the pretty lake in the Berkshires now called Pontoosuc.
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Conanchet was conveyed to Stonington, and, after a sort of trial, was condemned to be shot by the Mohegan and Pequod sachems.
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There is Mohegan, to be sure, he may have some right, being a native; but it's little the poor fellow can do now with his rifle.
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