Montagnais Definition
mŏntən-yā
montagnais
noun
A member of a North American Indian people of N Quebec.
Webster's New World
The Algonquian language of this people.
Webster's New World
pronoun
An Algonquian language spoken by approximately 11,000 people in Eastern Canada.
Wiktionary
Origin of Montagnais
It comes from the French " Montagne" translation of mountain, it means literally "the people that lives in the mountains" Because this native tribe was living in a range of mountain, the French discoverers named them for this reason.
From Wiktionary
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Canadian French from French montagne mountain Montagnard
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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