Noun: Metis
| Singular | Metis |
| Plural | Metis |
Sample Sentences
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Gabriel Du Pre is a Metis, a descendent^([sic]) of the Cree, Chippewa and Ojibwe tribes mixed with French. [2003, Joan Beam, Barbara Branstad, The Native American in Long Fiction: An Annotated Bibliography : Supplement, 1995-2002, Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press:]
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He is a Métis, that is, the son of a white father and Indian mother. He has dwelt long in cities where Europeans have conducted business, and speaks English and French very well; the other two chiefs are a Negro and an Indian: […] [1912, Eugène Sue, Works of Eugène Sue: The wandering Jew, page 161:]
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Malcolm Norris proposed that "if he has one drop of Indian blood in his veins and has not been assimilated into the social fabric of our civilization he is a Metis." [1991, Thomas C. Pocklington, University of Regina. Canadian Plains Research Center, The Government and Politics of the Alberta Metis Settlements, University of Regina Press, page 14]
Nouns inflected like Metis
cement works,
Old World ROM,
mythopoetics,
zhenniao,
ichimon,
seinen,
sedoka,
semese,
sentai,
senryū,
senbei,
whapuku,
whapuka,
selbri,
Cinghalese,
sayori,
sansho,
sanies,
sanmai,
sangza, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from French métis, from Old French mestis, from Late Latin mixtīcius. Métis originally referred to Francophone and Cree-speaking descendants of the French-Catholic Red River Métis in Manitoba. Compare metis, mestizo, mustee, and Mestee. See: French Nouns '
métis'.