Shawnee means (people who live in) the south, southerners. They were regarded by their Algonquian relatives in Canada and around the Great Lakes as their southern cousins.
In just some of the many Algonquian languages the words for south are:
Natick.....................sowaneyeu
Ojibwe...................zhawan
Maliseet.................sawonehsonuk
Abenaki..................sôwanaki
Algonquin...............shàwanong
Mahican..................shawunag
The Shawnee word for a tree is meth-ti-quie
The Shawnee word for a warrior is not-too-pol-wit-ta.
Southerner.
quashne
Hawk
The Shawnee word for a horse is m'šeewe or messewa; adding the element chuc-kie makes "little horse" = a pony.
The Shawnee word for fire is scutte.This is closely connected to Narragansett squtta and Abenaki skootai.
Grime mean people
The name shawnee means dangerously beautiful. It comes from a long line of native American names.The name Shawnee actually comes from the term Shawana which means southerner in the Shawnee language.
Chillicothe comes from a Shawnee word, it means principal place. Chillicothe is a city located in Ohio. It was at one time the capital city of Ohio.
They fighted for the word wide war.
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