noun, plural A·be·na·kis, (especially collectively) A·be·na·ki for 1.
- a member of a grouping of American Indian peoples of southern Quebec and Maine, earlier also of New Hampshire, Vermont, and northern Massachusetts.
- any of the Eastern Algonquian languages of the Abenaki peoples.
Algonquian-speaking Indians of northern New England and the Maritimes, 1721, from French abenaqui, from East Abenaki wapanahki, literally “person of the dawn land.”