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Assiniboine (iou)



Assiniboine noun & adjective. Also Assiniboin, Assinaboine, (earlier) Assinibouet. Pl. of noun same, -s. L17.
[Canad. French from Ojibwa assini:-pwa:n lit. 'stone Sioux', from assin stone + pwa:n (Cree pwa:t) Sioux.]
A member of, of or pertaining to, a Siouan people of the Great Plains of N. America. L17.
(Of) the language of this people. M19.