Cree

Meanings

Proper Noun

• An aboriginal nation of North America.
• The Algonquian language or dialect continuum spoken by this people.
• river Dumfries and Galloway (council area) Scotland (constituent country), which flows into the Solway Firth and Irish Sea.

Noun

• A member of this people.

Origin

• From a phonetic rendering of Canadian French Cris, short for Christinaux, from Algonquian *kiristino, originally referring to a group in the Hudson Bay region.