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Your question supposes that "most native Americans" used the same words and spoke the same language, which is a false assumption.

By "corn" I guess you mean zea mays or the maize plant, since the English word "corn" means cereal crops such as wheat, barley, oats and rye.

Some of the many hundreds of completely different words for maize in native American languages are:

Taino.............................mahiz (first recorded in 1555)

Ojibwa...........................mandaamin

Navajo...........................naadaa

Lenape (Delaware)........chasquem

Powhatan......................pohcuwtoah

Inca (Quechua)..............chuqllu

Aztec (Nahuatl)..............centli

Choctaw.........................tanchi

Mohawk..........................onenhste

Cherokee........................selu

Abenaki..........................skamon

Maliseet..........................wiwonaqotasik

Massachusetts...............weatchimin

Pequot...........................wewautchemins

Narragansett..................accoquiss

Mohegan........................wiwáhcum or wiwáhcumunsh

Sahaptin (Yakama).........sit'xwswáakul or sat'xwswaakul

Arapaho..........................hóó'etíí

Cheyenne.......................xamaa-mahaemenotse

Sanish (Arikara)..............neéŝu'

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