English
Nanticoke
Nanticoke comes from Nanticoke Nentego.
- NanticokemodernNentego
- Englishearliest quotation 2012Nanticoke
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- NanticokemodernNentego
- Englishearliest quotation 2012Nanticoke
Earliest quotation: 2012, Chris Lawrence, Navy drone crashes in Maryland: “The drone crashed into a tributary of the Nanticoke…”
Every English word from Nanticoke Nentego
Today it means
noun A member of an indigenous American Algonquian people whose traditional homelands are in Chesapeake Bay and Delaware.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Nanticoke Nentego / Nanticoke