[ al'gɒŋkwɪn ]
(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 ~ people.
Origin
C17: Fr., contr. of obs. Algoumequin , from a Micmac word meaning 'at the place of spearing fish and eels'.