Algonquian

adjective

• denoting or relating to a large family of North American Indian languages formerly spoken across a vast area from the Atlantic seaboard to the Great Lakes and the Great Plains, and including Ojibwa, Cree, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, and Delaware. Many words in English have been adopted from these languages, e.g. moccasin, moose, and toboggan.

noun

• 1 [mass noun] the Algonquian family of languages.

• 2a speaker of any of the Algonquian languages.