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单词 malecite
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Malecite

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Mal·e·cite

M0058600 (măl′ə-sīt′)n. Variant of Maliseet.
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Noun1.Malecite - a member of the Algonquian people of northeastern Maine and New BrunswickMalecite - a member of the Algonquian people of northeastern Maine and New BrunswickAlgonquian, Algonquin - a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Algonquian language and originally living in the subarctic regions of eastern Canada; many Algonquian tribes migrated south into the woodlands from the Mississippi River to the Atlantic coast
2.Malecite - the Algonquian language of the Malecite and PassamaquodyMalecite - the Algonquian language of the Malecite and PassamaquodyMaleseetAlgonquian language, Algonquin, Algonquian - family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains

Malecite

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Malecite

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Maliseet

(both: măl`əsīt), Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Algonquian branch of the Algonquian-Wakashan linguistic stock (see Native American languagesNative American languages,
languages of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere and their descendants. A number of the Native American languages that were spoken at the time of the European arrival in the New World in the late 15th cent.
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). In the early 17th cent. they occupied the valley of the St. John River in New Brunswick, Canada. The French settlers in this area intermarried with the Malecite, thereby forming a close alliance with the indigenous people. Hence, during the colonial wars the Malecite supported the French against the English. They now live in New Brunswick, Quebec, and Maine. In 1990 there were about 1,700 Malecite in Canada and about 900 in the United States.

Bibliography

See J. F. Pratson, Land of the Four Directions (1970).

Malecite

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  • noun

Synonyms for Malecite

noun a member of the Algonquian people of northeastern Maine and New Brunswick

Related Words

  • Algonquian
  • Algonquin

noun the Algonquian language of the Malecite and Passamaquody

Synonyms

  • Maleseet

Related Words

  • Algonquian language
  • Algonquin
  • Algonquian
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