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The language of the Massachusett and Wampanoag tribes is known as Natick; this language is extinct but fortunately it was comprehensively recorded by many early settlers and later historians and linguists.

Mass is a poor attempt by white settlers to pronounce Natick missi, mishe, misheu or missiyeu, all meaning "large or great". The second element is wadchu, meaning mountain or large hill; the final element is probably a word for people, or it could simply mean "place". Perhaps the original native word was really *mishewadchuset.

So: (people) at the great hill (country).

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