Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting parts of coastal Maine and New Brunswick along the Bay of Fundy, with present-day populations in eastern Maine. The Passamaquoddy helped form the Abenaki confederacy in the mid-1700s.
- noun The Algonquian language of the Passamaquoddy, dialectally related to Malecite.
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- proper noun an
Algonquian people ofMaine (U.S.) andNew Brunswick (Canada). - proper noun the Passamaquoddy language belongs to the Eastern Algonquian group of the large Algic language family. There are about 1,500 speakers remaining in
Maine andNew Brunswick . It is mutually intelligible with neighboring Maliseet.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I could not ferry the boat east, where I had thought to pick it up and sail in Passamaquoddy Bay and over to Digby, in Nova Scotia, and back to Saint John and up the enchanted river.
Aweigh 2004
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I could not ferry the boat east, where I had thought to pick it up and sail in Passamaquoddy Bay and over to Digby, in Nova Scotia, and back to Saint John and up the enchanted river.
Aweigh 2004
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Even the subset known as Passamaquoddy have two, for a few thousand members.
What's in a name? jhetley 2007
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Passamaquoddy, which is part of the Bay of Fundy, and this point, too, of so little inclination that it is a palpable perversion of language to call it _an angle_, much more a northwest angle.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 2: Martin Van Buren 1878
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Passamaquoddy, meaning 'the place of the pollocks'"(Doctor Kohl, _Dis. of Maine_, p. 234)" This derivation is doubtful.
Fishing Grounds of the Gulf of Maine Walter H. Rich
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Quoddy Don't write in — Gloria Steinem is my hero too, and I bet she would appreciate that Quoddy is named in part after Maine's Passamaquoddy tribe, where Harry Smith Shorey began making moccasins by hand in 1909.
Coolhunter: Quoddy Tina Gaudoin 2010
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My Passamaquoddy ancesters used to run the deer down on snowshoes (not that I can, I got the arthritis these days) and cut the bucks throat with a flint knife.
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My Passamaquoddy ancesters used to run the deer down on snowshoes (not that I can, I got the arthritis these days) and cut the bucks throat with a flint knife.
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But I only have a few hours, so the two are leading me to Minister's Island, a 500-acre tidal island which was first inhabited 2,500 years ago by the Passamaquoddy people, then by a Minister for whom the island is named, and finally by railroad baron Sir William Van Horne, who built an 80-room summer cottage and model farm.
Margie Goldsmith: Mountain Biking in Kilts in New Brunswick, Canada 2010
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In the centuries before Molly Ockett's birth around 1740, the Abenaki, an eastern Algonquian tribe, maintained their historic homeland over an area stretching from the Iroquoian tribal lands in southern Québec to the northern Massachusetts border and from the Passamaquoddy territory in eastern Maine to the shore of Lake Champlain in western Vermont.
History of American Women Maggiemac 2008
fbharjo commented on the word Passamaquoddy
Micmac word meaning"place where pollack are plentiful"
March 3, 2012