Passamaquoddy

[ pas-uh-muh-kwod-ee ]

/ ˌpæs ə məˈkwɒd i /

a member of a small tribe of North American Indians formerly of coastal Maine and New Brunswick and now living in Maine.

the Eastern Algonquian language of the Passamaquoddy, mutually intelligible with Malecite.

Example sentences from the Web for passamaquoddy

Vocabularies of Passamaquoddy words have been published, but as a general thing they are very incomplete.

Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-Lore |J. Walter Fewkes
If that is so, this is the only account in Passamaquoddy lore in which his parthenogenetic origin is traced.

Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-Lore |J. Walter Fewkes
It may be noticed, in passing, that Mr. Simonds writes from Passamaquoddy.

Glimpses of the Past |W. O. Raymond
Two English captives escaped at Passamaquoddy, and got into Portsmouth.

Curiosities of History |William W. Wheildon

Passamaquoddy Indians are believers in a power by which a song, sung in one place, can be heard in another many miles away.

Contribution to Passamaquoddy Folk-Lore |J. Walter Fewkes