Biloxi

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting an area near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in southeast Mississippi.
  2. 2
    the Siouan language spoken by the Biloxi wordnet
  3. 3
    a member of the Siouan people of southeastern Mississippi wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The extinct Siouan language once spoken by the Biloxi.
  2. 2
    A city in and one of the two county seats of Harrison County, Mississippi, United States.
  3. 3
    A village in southeastern Texas.

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biloxi citizenbiloxi citybiloxi indiansbiloxi languagebiloxi localbiloxi people

Etymology

Borrowed from French bilocchy (recorded by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville in 1699), itself a corruption of Biloxi Tanêks ąyaadi (literally “first people”). The shift of /t/ to /b/ and /n/ to /l/ occurred via Mobilian, however James Owen Dorsey has stated that this “agrees with the laws of Siouan consonant changes”.

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