Abenaki

== English == === Alternative forms === (Eastern Abenaki) Abnaki (Western Abenaki) Wabnaki (Abenaki confederacy) Waponahki === Etymology === From French abénaquis, either from Montagnais ouabanākionek (“people of the eastern country”) or from the Western Abenaki autonym Wôbanaki (whence also the English calque Dawnland) or an Eastern Abenaki/Penobscot cognate of the same, from Algonquin. Ultimately a compound word meaning "people of the east" or "people of the dawn-land", from Proto-Algonquian *wa·panki (“dawn”) +‎ *askyi (“land”). === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): /ˌæbəˈnæ.ki/, /ˌɑbəˈnɑki/ === Noun === Abenaki (plural Abenakis or Abenaki) A member of an Algonquian First People from northeastern North America, mainly Maine and Quebec. [early 18th century] ==== Translations ==== === Proper noun === Abenaki A complex of Eastern Algonquian lects, originally spoken in what is now Maine, and Quebec, divided into Western Abenaki and Eastern Abenaki (Penobscot). [early 20th century] (in particular) The Western Abenaki language. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Adjective === Abenaki (not comparable) Related or pertaining to the Abenaki people or language. [early 19th century] ==== Translations ==== === See also === Wiktionary’s coverage of Abenaki terms === References === === Further reading === Ethnologue entry for Western Abenaki, abe ⁠ Ethnologue entry for Eastern Abenaki, aaq ⁠ (Penobscot, extinct) === Anagrams === ikebana, in a bake