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Mahican
[ muh-hee-kuhn ]
noun
, plural Ma·hi·cans, (especially collectively) Ma·hi·can
- a tribe or confederacy of North American Indians of the Algonquian family, centralized formerly in the upper Hudson valley.
- a member of this tribe or confederacy.
- the extinct Algonquian language of the Mahican Indians.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Mahican1
First recorded in 1605–15; self-designation of the Mahican people; literally, “person (people) of the tidal estuary (of the Hudson River)”; cognate with Munsee Delaware ma·hí·kan; compare -a·hi·kan in kihta·hí·kan “ocean,” with kiht- “great”); the spelling variant Mohican was popularized by James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans (1826)
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Example Sentences
An old Mahican settlement known as Potick was located a little back from the river.
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The Mahican Village at the mouth of the creek was called Nappechemak.
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