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sagamore

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈsæɡəmɔː/Part of speech nounSorted aaegmorsStarts with SEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a chief of a North American tribe or confederation (especially an Algonquian chief)

Word origin

From an Algonquian language; compare Abenaki sôgmô, sôgemô (“chief”), Mi'kmaq saqamaw (“chief”), and Penobscot sagama, sagema, sagemo, sangemo (“chief”), all ultimately from Proto-Algonquian *sa·kima·wa (“male chief”). Doublet of sachem.

Used in a sentence

  • An Indian Soggamore is not in his full Pomp and Bravery without one of theſe Birds in his Ear for a Pendant.
  • Once we slept where we could hear the salt lake speak in its anger. Then we were rulers and Sagamores over the land.

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