Dakota
pronunciation
How to pronounce Dakota in British English:
UK [dəˈkəutə]
How to pronounce Dakota in American English:
US [dəˈkotə]
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- Noun:
- a member of the Siouan people of the northern Mississippi valley; commonly called the Sioux
- the area of the states of North Dakota and South Dakota
- the Siouan language spoken by the Dakota people
Word Origin
- Dakota
- 1809, name of a group of native peoples from the Plains states speaking a Siouan language, from Dakota dakhota "friendly" (the name often is translated as "allies"). Recorded by Lewis and Clark (1804) as Dar co tar; in western dialects of the Teton subgroup, Lakota, Lakhota; in Assiniboine dialect, Nakota, Nakhota.
Example
- 1. North dakota is enjoying an energy boom .
- 2. A deer runs through a field near hong , north dakota .
- 3. He 's a three-time presidential candidate who died sunday at the age of 90 in south dakota .
- 4. Dakota rentfrow , 23 , rode out the storm in ms. burrell 's basement .
- 5. The same logic applied in the eastern counties of north and south dakota , in south-west minnesota and in other parts of the corn belt where getting corn to market is costly .