Sagamore Definition

săgə-môr
noun
A chief of second rank among certain tribes of North American Indians.
Webster's New World
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Noun

Singular:
sagamore
Plural:
sagamores

Origin of Sagamore

  • First attested in the 1610s-1620s. From an Algonquian language; compare Abenaki sôgmô, sôgemô (“chief"); Penobscot sagama, sagema, sagemo, sangemo (“chief"); Mi'kmaq saqamaw (“chief"). Ultimately the same Proto-Algonquian root *sa·kima·wa as sachem.

    From Wiktionary

  • Eastern Abenaki sα`kəmα

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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