What does hau mean in the native American Indian language?

Answer 1

"The native American Indian language" implies that there is only one, when in fact there are more than 2,000 native languages in the Americas, most of which do not include that word.

In Lakota (the language of the Teton Sioux), the word haucan signify a greeting or hello used only by men (hau kola, hello my friend); it can mean a formal "yes" (hau, mnin kte, yes I will go there); or it can mean "no" in response to a negative question: Hi shni he? - Did he not come? Hau, hi shni. - No, he did not come.

Other native languages (Cherokee, Arapaho, Powhatan, Seneca, Illinois, Pawnee, Arikara, Cheyenne, Tlingit, Maidu, Zuni, Navajo and hundreds more) have entirely different words of greeting and do not use the word hau.

Answer 2

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