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lumbee

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.44 in modern English

Syllables
lum-bee
IPA
10
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A member of a certain Native American tribe or group of North Carolina.

name

The dialect (of English) spoken by the Lumbee people.

Etymology

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 (1895-1978, the twenty-seventh hereditary chief of the Piscataway) as a combination of Lumber (“a river that flows through the tribe's lands”) and Piscataway bee (“bend”).

Inflected Forms

Lumbees (plural)

Questions

What does lumbee mean?
A member of a certain Native American tribe or group of North Carolina.
Where does lumbee come from?
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 (1895-1978, the twenty-seventh hereditary chief of the Piscataway) as a combination of Lumber (“a river that flows through the tribe's lands”) and Piscataway bee (“bend”).

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