English
Papago
Papago comes from Spanish Pápago, and goes back to O'odham Ba꞉bawĭkoʼa ‘they eat tepary beans’.
- O'odhammodernBa꞉bawĭkoʼa‘they eat tepary beans’
- Spanishc. 1500–presentPápago
- Englishearliest quotation 1895Papago
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- O'odhammodernBa꞉bawĭkoʼa‘they eat tepary beans’
- Spanishc. 1500–presentPápago
- Englishearliest quotation 1895Papago
Earliest quotation: 1895, John Wesley Powell, Meadville: “In the valley of the Gila and on its…”
Every English word from O'odham Ba꞉bawĭkoʼa
Today it means
noun A Uto-Aztecan people of southern Arizona and Sonora in northern Mexico. Today they are known as the Tohono O'odham ("the Desert People").
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / O'odham Ba꞉bawĭkoʼa / Papago