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Shawnee

adj, name, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Of, belonging to, or pertaining to this tribe. not-comparable
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The language of this tribe.
  2. 2
    A female given name, derived from the name of this tribe.

    "The girls from our year were mainly named some version of Shawn. There was Shawna, Dawna, Shawnee, Dawnali, Shalana, and just plain Dawn and Shawn."

  3. 3
    A city, the county seat of Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    A member of a Native American people (tribe) from Ohio.
  2. 2
    Virginia waterleaf (Hydrophyllum virginianum) uncountable
  3. 3
    the Algonquian language spoken by the Shawnee wordnet
  4. 4
    a member of the Algonquian people formerly living along the Tennessee river wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Shawnee Shawanwa (“Shawnee”) or shawanoki (“southerners”), a hypothetical intermediary term is sometimes supposed to have facilitated the entry into English, such as Munsee sawanow.

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Shawnee Shawanwa (“Shawnee”) or shawanoki (“southerners”), a hypothetical intermediary term is sometimes supposed to have facilitated the entry into English, such as Munsee sawanow.

Etymology 3

Ultimately from Shawnee Shawanwa (“Shawnee”) or shawanoki (“southerners”), a hypothetical intermediary term is sometimes supposed to have facilitated the entry into English, such as Munsee sawanow.

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