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Cheyenne2

Pronunciation: /ʃʌɪˈan/
Definition of Cheyenne

noun (plural same or Cheyennes)

  • 1a member of an American Indian people formerly living between the Missouri and Arkansas Rivers but now on reservations in Montana and Oklahoma.
  • 2 [mass noun] the Algonquian language of the Cheyenne, now almost extinct.

adjective

  • relating to the Cheyenne or their language.

Origin:

Canadian French, from Dakota šahíyena, from šaia 'speak incoherently', from ša 'red' + ya 'speak'

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