Cayuga

[ key-yoo-guh, kahy- ]

/ keɪˈyu gə, kaɪ- /

noun, plural Ca·yu·gas, (especially collectively) Ca·yu·ga.

a member of a tribe of North American Indians, the smallest tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy.

the dialect of the Seneca language spoken by the Cayuga.

Also called Cayuga duck. one of an American breed of domestic ducks having black plumage.

Origin of Cayuga

1735–45, Americanism; < Cayuga *kayo·kwę, name of a 17th-century village; compare Cayuga kayokwęhó˙nǫʔ Cayuga (people) (or < a related form in another N Iroquoian language)

Example sentences from the Web for cayuga

Villages around Cayuga and other lakes were burned by detachments.

The Scouts of the Valley |Joseph A. Altsheler
Take heed, you Mohawks, and you Cayuga war-chiefs and sachems, that you do no violence to this council-fire!

The Maid-At-Arms |Robert W. Chambers
To and fro strode the Cayuga, heavy head bent; to and fro, pacing the circle like a stupefied panther.

The Reckoning |Robert W. Chambers
At 8-½ miles crossed the outlet of Cayuga, which in breadth was about 70 perches, and more than middle deep to the men.

The Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh of the Second New York Continental Regiment from May 1 to October 3, 1779, in General Sullivan's Campaign Against the Western Indians |John Leonard Hardenbergh

It was just day-light when they arrived in the vicinity of Cayuga, on the lake of the same name.

Alida |Amelia Stratton Comfield

British Dictionary definitions for cayuga

Cayuga

/ (keɪˈjuːɡə, kaɪ-) /

noun

plural -gas or -ga a member of a Native American people (one of the Iroquois peoples) formerly living around Cayuga Lake

the language of this people, belonging to the Iroquoian family

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Cayuga

noun, plural Ca·yu·gas, (especially collectively) Ca·yu·ga.

Origin of Cayuga

Example sentences from the Web for cayuga

British Dictionary definitions for cayuga

noun