algonquin

Algonquin has 3 syllables: al · gon · quin.

noun. Family of North American Indian languages spoken from Labrador to South Carolina and west to the Great Plains.

noun. 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.

adjective. Of or relating to an Algonquian tribe or its people or language.