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Amerind

  • /ˈæməɹənd/

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Blend of American + Indian or possibly blend of American + indigenous. First appears c. 1899 in the publication American Anthropologist.

noun Amerinds

  1. An American Indian. The cultural hiatus associated with the Pine Pollen Zone suggests that Amerinds may have avoided the area.

adjective

  1. not comparable Of or relating to a hypothetical, largely discredited higher-level language family including all of the indigenous languages of the Americas, excluding those that belong to Eskimo-Aleut or Na-Dene.

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"Amerind." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/amerind. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026.

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Amerind. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/amerind

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"Amerind." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/amerind.

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@misc{amerind_2026,
  title = {Amerind},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/amerind},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}