Algonquin
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Algonquin /alˈgɒŋkwɪn/ (also Algonkin)
▶noun
- 1 a member of an American Indian people living in Canada along the Ottawa River and its tributaries and westward to the north of Lake Superior.
- 2 the Algonquian language of the Algonquin people.
– origin C17: Fr., contr. of obs. Algoumequin, from a Micmac word meaning ‘at the place of spearing fish and eels’.
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