English
Hunkpapa
Hunkpapa comes from Lakota Húŋkpapȟa ‘head of the circle’.
- LakotamodernHúŋkpapȟa‘head of the circle’
- Englishearliest quotation 1950Hunkpapa
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- LakotamodernHúŋkpapȟa‘head of the circle’
- Englishearliest quotation 1950Hunkpapa
Earliest quotation: 1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, War Shirt; in Indian Country: “If I'd kept a woman, he realized, instead of…”
Every English word from Lakota Húŋkpapȟa
Today it means
noun A member of a Native American group, one of the seven council fires of the Lakota tribe.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Lakota Húŋkpapȟa / Hunkpapa