Wabanaki
Meanings
name
- A confederation of Native American nations/First Nations and their traditional territories that stretches from Newfoundland in the north, to mid-Maine in the south, and parts of Quebec in the west.
- A region of North America, translated in English as "Dawnland," that covers the Maritime provinces, New England, and Newfoundland
Word forms
Etymology
From the inflected Algonquin root words wab "light, east" and aki "land", meaning people of the first light or land of the dawn.
Related words
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.