Lumbee

Meanings

Noun

• A member of a certain Native American tribe or group of North Carolina.

Proper Noun

• The dialect (of English) spoken by the Lumbee people.

Origin

• Of uncertain origin. Said to be first attested in reference to the tribe in 1914. Supposed by some to be of origin. Thought by others to have been coined by Turkey Tayac as a combination of Lumber and Piscataway bee.