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Maliseet, n. and a.|ˈmæləsiːt|
Also Malecite, † Melicete, and other forms from Canad. Fr. Pl. unchanged or (occas.) with -s.
[ad. Fr. Malecite (1722) or ad. its etymon Micmac mali·sit, lit. ‘a person who speaks poorly or incomprehensibly’.]
A. n.
a. A member of a North American Indian people of Quebec, New Brunswick, and Maine, nearly identical in language and culture to the neighbouring Passamaquoddy.
b. The eastern Algonquian language of this people.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or designating this people or their language.
1847A. Gesner New Brunswick v. 108 The Melicetes, from being descended from the Delaware stock, speak a dialect of that people. 1855J. Stephens (title) A primer for young children applicable to the Indian language, as spoken by the Mee-lee-ceet tribe in New Brunswick. 1863(title) The ten commandments, the Lord's Prayer, etc., in the Maliseet language. 1884Encycl. Brit. XVII. 603/1 There are 2125 Indians in Nova Scotia, principally Malicites and Micmacs. 1899M. Chamberlain Maliseet Vocab. 6 That slurring and drawling of the syllables which lends a musical quality to the Maliseet speech. 1908Catholic Encycl. III. 229/2 To the east are the Micmac, Malecite, Abnaki, Nascapi, and the Montagnais of Labrador. 1912T. Michelson in 28th Ann. Rep. U.S. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 280 The existing dialects..are Micmac, Malecite, Passamaquoddy, Penobscot, and Abnaki. 1979I. Goddard in Campbell & Mithun Lang. Native Americas 111, In Maliseet -s(əpən-) is suffixed after the central endings and before the peripheral endings. 1992Beaver Aug. 59/3 Noel Lola is included..partly for his life as a New Brunswick Malecite, but also for his later reputation as a restless ghost. |