English
Iowa
Iowa comes from Dakota ayúxba ‘the sleepy ones’.
- Dakotamodernayúxba‘the sleepy ones’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentAiouez
- Englishearliest quotation 1951Iowa
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Dakotamodernayúxba‘the sleepy ones’
- Frenchc. 1600–presentAiouez
- Englishearliest quotation 1951Iowa
Earliest quotation: 1951, Herbert Hoover, The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: “I prefer to think of Iowa as I saw…”
Every English word from Dakota ayúxba
Today it means
name A state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Capital and largest city: Des Moines.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Dakota ayúxba / Iowa