Lumbee
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Said to be first attested in reference to the tribe in 1914. Supposed by some to be of Siouan origin. Thought by others to have been coined by Turkey Tayac as a combination of Lumber (“a river that flows through the tribe's lands”) and Piscataway bee (“bend”).[1]
Noun
[edit]Lumbee (plural Lumbees or Lumbee)
- A member of a certain Native American tribe or group of North Carolina.
Translations
[edit]member of the tribe
Proper noun
[edit]Lumbee
- The dialect (of English) spoken by the Lumbee people.
Translations
[edit]the language
References
[edit]- ^ Malinda Maynor Lowery, Lumbee Indians in the Jim Crow South: Race, Identity, and the Making of a Nation
Further reading
[edit]- Ethnologue entry for Lumbee, lmz
