Shawnees

Variant of Shawnee

Shawnee definition

Shaw·nee (s̸hô nē′, s̸hô′nē)

noun

  1. pl. Shawnees -·nees′ or Shawnee -·nee′ a member of a North American Indian people living at various times in the East and Midwest, and now chiefly in Oklahoma
  2. the Algonquian language of this people

Etymology: back-form. < Shawnese, taken as pl. < earlier Shawanoes, ult. < Shawnee shaawanooki, lit., people of the south

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