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==Etymology==
The name comes from [[Powhatan language|Powhatan]] {{Lang|pim|tamahaac}}, derived from the [[Proto-Algonquian]] root {{lang|alg-x-proto|*temah-}} 'to cut off by tool'.<ref name="Cutler 2002 139">{{cite book |last=Cutler |first=Charles L. |title=Tracks that Speak: The Legacy of Native American Words in North American Culture |year=2002 |publisher=[[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]] |location=Boston |isbn=0-618-06509-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/tracksthatspeakl00char |url-access=registration |page=[https://archive.org/details/tracksthatspeakl00char/page/139 139]}}</ref> 

[[Algonquian languages|Algonquian]] cognates include [[Lenape language|Lenape]] {{lang|del|təmahikan}},<ref>{{cite dictionary |title=tëmahikàn |url=http://www.talk-lenape.org/results?query=tëmahikàn&lang=lenape |dictionary=Lenape Talking Dictionary |access-date=October 27, 2012 |quote=The Lenape root {{lang|del|təmə-}} means 'to cut off' and the suffix {{lang|del|-hikan}} forms the names of tools}}</ref> [[Malecite-Passamaquoddy language|Malecite-Passamaquoddy]] {{lang|pqm|tomhikon}}, and [[Abenaki language|Abenaki]] {{lang|abe|demahigan}}, all of which mean 'axe'.<ref name="Hranicky2009">{{cite book |last=Hranicky |first=William |title=Material Culture from Prehistoric Virginia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_nBw1BC2JW4C&pg=PA56 |date=1 April 2009 |publisher=[[AuthorHouse]] |isbn=978-1-4389-6661-8 |page=56}}</ref><ref name="JahrBroch1996">{{cite book |last1=Jahr |first1=Ernst Håkon |author-link=Ernst Håkon Jahr |last2=Broch |first2=Ingvild |title=Language Contact in the Arctic: Northern Pidgins and Contact Languages |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VAfMZIta9yUC&pg=PA295 |year=1996 |publisher=[[Walter de Gruyter]] |isbn=978-3-11-014335-5 |page=295}}</ref>

The term came into the English language in the 17th century as an [[Anglicisation#Anglicisation of loanwords|adaptation]] of the [[Powhatan]] ([[Virginia]]n [[Eastern Algonquian languages|Algonquian]]) word.