n.
Pronunciation: m ə - ' h ē -k ə n
Variant: or Mo · hi · can \ m ō -, m ə - \
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural -can or -cans
Etymology: Mahican
Date: circa 1614
1 : a member of an American Indian people of the upper Hudson River valley
2 : the extinct Algonquian language of the Mahican people