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Nanticoke

The English word “Nanticoke” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A member of an indigenous American Algonquian people whose traditional homelands are in Chesapeake Bay and Delaware.

proper noun

  1. Their Algonquian language.
  2. An unincorporated community in Haldimand County, Ontario, Canada.

Etymology

Borrowed from Nanticoke Nentego.

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