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Kickapoo

//ˈkɪkəˌpuː// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The language spoken by these people.
  2. 2
    A place in the United States:; A township and unincorporated community therein, in Peoria County, Illinois.
  3. 3
    A place in the United States:; A ghost town in Warren Township, Warren County, Indiana.
  4. 4
    A place in the United States:; A township and unincorporated community therein, in Leavenworth County, Kansas.
  5. 5
    A place in the United States:; A town in Vernon County, Wisconsin.
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  1. 6
    A place in the United States:; Other townships, listed under Kickapoo Township.
  2. 7
    A place in the United States:; A river in Wisconsin, a tributary of the Wisconsin River.
Noun
  1. 1
    A member of a particular Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe.
  2. 2
    the Algonquian language of the Kickapoo wordnet
  3. 3
    a member of the Algonquian people formerly inhabiting southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Spanish Kikapú, further origins are contested; an Anishinaabeg source proposes giiwigaabaw (“stand here and there”), in reference to the tribe's migratory patterns.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Spanish Kikapú, further origins are contested; an Anishinaabeg source proposes giiwigaabaw (“stand here and there”), in reference to the tribe's migratory patterns.

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