Sioux
pronunciation
How to pronounce Sioux in British English:
UK [su:]
How to pronounce Sioux in American English:
US [su]
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- Noun:
- a member of a group of North American Indian peoples who spoke a Siouan language and who ranged from Lake Michigan to the Rocky Mountains
Word Origin
- Sioux
- group of North American Indian tribes, 1761, from North American French, short for Nadouessioux, sometimes said to be from Ojibway (Algonquian) Natowessiwak (plural), literally "little snakes," from nadowe "Iroquois" (literally "big snakes"). Another explanation traces it to early Ottawa (Algonquian) singular /na:towe:ssi/ (plural /na:towe:ssiwak/) "Sioux," apparently from a verb meaning "to speak a foreign language" [Bright]. In either case, a name given by their neighbors; the people's name for themselves is Dakota.
Example
- 1. The sioux chief is a very wise man .
- 2. That a solution to the sioux uprising must be found at once .
- 3. There are 167 larsons in the sioux falls phone book .
- 4. For these tribesmen , as for others ranging from the sioux to the pashtuns , irregular warfare was a way of life .
- 5. It is as if americans had never heard of the sioux , and wounded knee had become a tourist resort where the events of 1890 had faded from memory .