Pequot

Meanings

Noun

• A member of a tribe of Native Americans who historically inhabited eastern Connecticut and spoke a variety of Mohegan-Pequot.

Proper Noun

• This tribe.
• The variety of Mohegan-Pequot spoken by this tribe.

Origin

• Attested in English since the 1620s/1630s, from Narragansett Pequttôog (compare Abenaki pôgwa ("shallow, shoal")).