petun
Meanings
noun
- Tobacco, especially in the context of its early acquisition from Native Americans by the French.
noun
- A member of the Iroquoian "tobacco people", or Tionontati, a First Nation located on the southwest edge of the Georgian Bay of Lake Huron, west of the Huron territory in Southern Ontario.
Word forms
Etymology
From French pétun, from Tupian.
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