English
Pequot
Pequot comes from Narragansett Pequttôog ‘people of the shoals’.
- NarragansettmodernPequttôog‘people of the shoals’
- EnglishtodayPequot
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- NarragansettmodernPequttôog‘people of the shoals’
- EnglishtodayPequot
The story
Attested in English since the 1620s/1630s, from Narragansett Pequttôog (‘people of the shoals’) (compare Abenaki pôgwa (‘shallow, shoal’)).
Every English word from Narragansett Pequttôog
Today it means
noun A member of a tribe of Native Americans who historically inhabited eastern Connecticut and spoke a variety of Mohegan-Pequot.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Narragansett Pequttôog / Pequot