English Explanatory Dictionary

Pequot

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of a tribe of Native Americans who historically inhabited eastern Connecticut and spoke a variety of Mohegan-Pequot.
name
  1. This tribe.
  2. The variety of Mohegan-Pequot spoken by this tribe.

Pronunciation

/ˈpiːˌkwɒt/ En-Pequot.oga

Word forms

Pequot Pequots Pequod

Etymology

Attested in English since the 1620s/1630s, from Narragansett Pequttôog (“people of the shoals”) (compare Abenaki pôgwa (“shallow, shoal”)).

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