Shawnee
[ shaw-nee ]
/ ʃɔˈni /
noun, plural Shaw·nees, (especially collectively) Shaw·nee.
a member of an Algonquian-speaking tribe formerly in the east-central U.S., now in Oklahoma.
the Algonquian language of the Shawnee tribe.
a town in E Kansas.
a city in central Oklahoma.
Origin of Shawnee
1720–30,
Americanism; back formation from earlier
Shawnese,
Shawanese (construed as plural), reshaping (with
-ese) of earlier
Shawanoes (plural) < Munsee Delaware
šá·wano·w (singular) < Shawnee
ša·wano·ki Shawnees, literally, people of the south
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British Dictionary definitions for shawnee
Shawnee
/ (ʃɔːˈniː) /
noun
plural -nees or -nee
a member of a North American Indian people formerly living along the Tennessee River
the language of this people, belonging to the Algonquian family
Word Origin for Shawnee
C20: back formation from obsolete
Shawnese, from Shawnee
Shaawanwaaki people of the south, from
shaawanawa south