Shasta

//ˈʃæs.tə// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An extinct Native American language, formerly spoken from northern California into southwestern Oregon.
  2. 2
    A brand of cola.

    "’Cause I’m the Master Blaster drinking up the Shasta / My voice sounds sweet ’cause it has-ta"

  3. 3
    A census-designated place in Shasta County, California, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    A member of a Native American tribe of California.
  2. 2
    the Shastan language spoken by the Shasta wordnet
  3. 3
    a member of the Indian people of northern California and southern Oregon wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Uncertain. Possibly from the exonym Sustika, with an origin in the Klamath language.

Etymology 2

Uncertain. Possibly from the exonym Sustika, with an origin in the Klamath language.

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