Etymograph

English

Shawnee

Shawnee comes from Shawnee saawanwa.

  1. Shawneemodernsaawanwa
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2012Shawnee

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Shawneemodernsaawanwa
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2012Shawnee

Earliest quotation: 2012, Louise Erdrich, The Round House: “The girls from our year were mainly named some…”

The story

Ultimately from Shawnee saawanwa (‘Shawnee’) or saawanoki (‘southerners’), a hypothetical intermediary term is sometimes supposed to have facilitated the entry into English, such as Munsee sawanow. Likely a re-analysis of Shawnese as the plural Shawnees.

Every English word from Shawnee saawanwa

Today it means

noun A member of a Native American people (tribe) from Ohio.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Shawnee saawanwa / Shawnee

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