Caddos

Variant of Caddo

noun pl. Caddos or Caddo

  1. a member of any of a group of North American Indian peoples formerly living in Louisiana, Arkansas, and E Texas, now living mainly in Oklahoma
  2. the Caddoan language of these peoples

Origin: Louisiana Fr Cadaux, shortened < Sp Cadojodacho < Caddo kaduhdá·čuʾ, name of a major group of the Caddo confederacy

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