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Sioux

  [soo]
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–noun, plural Sioux  [soo, sooz] .
Dakota (defs. 4, 6).
Origin:
1755–65, Americanism; < North American F, shortening of earlier Nadouessioux < Ojibwa (Ottawa dial.) na⋅towe⋅ssiw(ak) pl. (< Proto-Algonquian *na⋅towe⋅hsiw-, deriv. of *na⋅towe⋅wa Iroquoian, prob. lit., speaker of a foreign language) + F -x pl. marker

Da⋅ko⋅ta

  [duh-koh-tuh]
–noun
1. a former territory in the United States: divided into the states of North Dakota and South Dakota 1889.
2. North Dakota or South Dakota.
3. the Dakotas, North Dakota and South Dakota.
4. Also called Sioux. a member of the largest tribe of the Siouan stock of North American Indians, who originally occupied Minnesota and Wisconsin and later migrated westward to the Great Plains.
5. Santee (defs. 3, 4).
6. a Siouan language spoken by the Dakota and Assiniboin Indians.
Related forms:
Da⋅ko⋅tan, adjective, noun
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Sioux   (sōō)   
n.   pl. Sioux (sōō, sōōz)

    1. A group of Native American peoples, also known as the Dakota, inhabiting the northern Great Plains from Minnesota to eastern Montana and from southern Saskatchewan to Nebraska. Present-day Sioux populations are located mainly in North and South Dakota.

    2. A member of any of these peoples.

  2. Any of the Siouan languages of the Sioux peoples.


[North American French, short for nadouéssioux, from Ottawa naadowesiwag.]
Sioux adj.
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