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Pequot

Pequot

English

Alternative forms

Noun

Pequot ‎(plural Pequots or Pequot)

  1. A member of a tribe of Native Americans who historically inhabited eastern Connecticut and spoke a variety of Mohegan-Pequot.

Proper noun

Pequot

  1. This tribe.
  2. The variety of Mohegan-Pequot spoken by this tribe.

Etymology

Attested in English since the 1620s/1630s, from Narragansett Pequttôog ‎(“people of the shoals”) (compare Abenaki pôgwa ‎(“shallow, shoal”)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpiːˌkwɒt/

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