n.
Pronunciation: ˌ a-b ə - ' nä-k ē
Variant: also Ab · na · ki \ ab- ' nä-k ē \
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural Abenaki or Abenakis also Abnaki or Abnakis
Etymology: Eastern Abenaki w α pánahki, Western Abenaki w ỏ banakii, literally, dawn land people, easterners
Date: 1721
1 : a member of a group of American Indian peoples of northern New England and adjoining parts of Quebec
2 : either of the two Algonquian languages spoken by the Abenaki peoples