单词 | Shawnee |
释义 | Shawnee /shaw nee"/, n. , pl. Shawnees, (esp. collectively) Shawnee. 1. a member of an Algonquian-speaking tribe formerly in the east-central U.S., now in Oklahoma. 2. the Algonquian language of the Shawnee tribe. 3. a town in E Kansas. 29,653. 4. a city in central Oklahoma. 26,506. [1720-30, Amer.; back formation from earlier Shawnese, Shawanese (construed as pl.), reshaping (with -ESE) of earlier Shawanoes (pl.) < Munsee Delaware šá·wano·w (sing.) < Shawnee ša·wano·ki Shawnees, lit., people of the south] |
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