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Native American Languages
Information and translations for Native American languages. Please note each tribe has its own language, and there is no single "Native American" language.
1,626 Questions
What does the word Pocono mean?
The modern place name Pocono has no meaning - but it is derived from a Delaware Indian word (pohoqualin), which means "stream between mountains".
This is a typical example of native words being misunderstood, mispronounced or garbled by early white settlers, who generally had little or no interest in native languages.
What is the simplest native American language for an English speaker to learn?
There is no native American language anywhere in the Americas that behaves in the same way as English; native grammars are generally far more complex than in English and in many native languages almost every word is a verb form (even nouns) or a predicate describing a verb form. Many words are composites that express an entire phrase in English. Unlike modern spoken English, where rules of grammar are largely ignored, native languages are extremely strict and firmly structured, so the change of even a single sound can alter the meaning.
Some of the American mountain men of the 1820s to 1840s expressed the opinion that Crow was the easiest language in the region to learn, but that was in comparison to some extremely difficult languages such as Flathead/Kalispel. Crow is certainly not easy for most English speakers.
Any language is made easier if you can converse with a native speaker and sadly many North and South American languages are currently almost extinct, with under 50 fluent native speakers left - others are already extinct, such as Natick, Powhatan and Mandan.
If you are serious about learning a native American language I would suggest you look at Ojibwe or Algonkin (Ojibwe is Chippewa in the USA); there are some useful websites and many good books which will teach you the correct pronunciation of words and the basics of grammar in those languages. It will be a challenge and no easy task, but these languages are still spoken and taught today, so you may have the opportunity to communicate with native speakers.
it is Navajo. It means like hello or hi
Answer
I asked a Navajo woman what it meant and she told me that it basically is a greeting, but translated into English it means yata (sky) hey (blessing)
According to the website The New Parent's Guide, Koda means Last Born, Mother's Pet. According to Ancestry.com, Koda is Japanese meaning: 'rice paddy of happiness'. Baby Names World website states that Koda is Native American meaning "The Allies". Takoda means "friend of all" in Native American, so if you're looking for a NA meaning, it would probably be "The Allies". I'm not sure adding an "H" really changes much of the meaning. References: http://www.thenewparentsguide.com/baby-names-k.htm http://www.ancestry.com/facts/Koda-name-meaning.ashx http://www.thenewparentsguide.com/baby-names-k.htm
What is a circular letter with a tear off?
this is an important document that is used in an organization.and is send round the business for name of present employee etc
What is the Native American word for Cloud?
There are many different Native American languages.
Here are just a few translations of 'bird':
Creek: fuswv
Koasati: chothchoba (water bird)
Lakota: zintkala
Navajo: tsidii
Tsalagi (Cherokee): tsiskwa
What is the Native American meaning of Chi?
There are hundreds of Native American languages.
In Navajo, chidi means car, truck, or vehicle.
In Taino, chi' means mouth and 'ka chi means previously.
In Abenaki-Penoscot, kchi means big or great and chiz means cheese.
In Choctaw, chito means large or big and okchi means juice.
What is the Native American translation for the words shooting star?
There are more than 300 Native American languages. You would have to specify which one you're talking about.
What does Sallateeska mean in native American?
There are more than 700 different Native American languages spoken in North and South America.
If you are not sure which language you are talking about, here is a partial list of the most common Native American languages in North America:
- Abnaki, Eastern
- Achumawi
- Afro-Seminole Creole
- Ahtena
- Alabama
- Aleut
- Alsea
- Angloromani
- Apache, Jicarilla
- Apache, Kiowa
- Apache, Lipan
- Apache, Mescalero-Chiricahua
- Apache, Western
- Arapaho
- Arikara
- Assiniboine
- Atakapa
- Atsugewi
- Barbareño
- Biloxi
- Blackfoot
- Caddo
- Cahuilla
- Carolina Algonquian
- Carolinian
- Catawba
- Cayuga
- Chamorro
- Chehalis, Lower
- Chehalis, Upper
- Cherokee
- Chetco
- Cheyenne
- Chickasaw
- Chimariko
- Chinook
- Chinook Wawa
- Chippewa
- Chitimacha
- Choctaw
- Chumash
- Clallam
- Cocopa
- Coeur d'Alene
- Columbia-Wenatchi
- Comanche
- Coos
- Coquille
- Cowlitz
- Cree, Plains
- Crow
- Cruzeño
- Cupeño
- Dakota
- Degexit'an
- Delaware
- Delaware, Pidgin
- Esselen
- Evenki
- Eyak
- Galice
- Gros Ventre
- Gwich'in
- Halkomelem
- Han
- Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai
- Hawai'i Creole English
- Hawai'i Pidgin Sign Language
- Hawaiian
- Hidatsa
- Ho-Chunk
- Holikachuk
- Hopi
- Hupa
- Ineseño
- Inupiaq
- Inupiatun, North Alaskan
- Inupiatun, Northwest Alaska
- Iowa-Oto
- Jemez
- Jingpho
- Kalapuya
- Kalispel-Pend D'oreille
- Kansa
- Karkin
- Karok
- Kashaya
- Kato
- Kawaiisu
- Keres, Eastern
- Keres, Western
- Kickapoo
- Kiowa
- Kitsai
- Klamath-Modoc
- Koasati
- Koyukon
- Kumiai
- Kuskokwim, Upper
- Kutenai
- Lakota
- Luiseño
- Lumbee
- Lushootseed
- Mahican
- Maidu, Northeast
- Maidu, Northwest
- Maidu, Valley
- Makah
- Malecite-Passamaquoddy
- Mandan
- Mattole
- Menominee
- Meskwaki
- Miami
- Michif
- Micmac
- Mikasuki
- Miwok, Bay
- Miwok, Central Sierra
- Miwok, Coast
- Miwok, Lake
- Miwok, Northern Sierra
- Miwok, Plains
- Miwok, Southern Sierra
- Mohave
- Mohawk
- Mohegan-Montauk-Narragansett
- Mokilese
- Molale
- Mono
- Muskogee
- Nanticoke
- Natchez
- Navajo
- Nawathinehena
- Nez Perce
- Nisenan
- Nooksack
- Nottoway
- Obispeño
- Ofo
- Ohlone, Northern
- Ohlone, Southern
- Okanagan
- Omaha-Ponca
- Oneida
- Onondaga
- Osage
- Ottawa
- Paiute, Northern
- Pawnee
- Piro
- Piscataway
- Plains Indian Sign Language
- Pomo, Central
- Pomo, Eastern
- Pomo, Northeastern
- Pomo, Northern
- Pomo, Southeastern
- Pomo, Southern
- Potawatomi
- Powhatan
- Purepecha
- Purisimeño
- Quapaw
- Quechan
- Quileute
- Quinault
- Salinan
- Salish, Southern Puget Sound
- Salish, Straits
- Sea Island Creole English
- Seneca
- Serrano
- Shasta
- Shawnee
- Shoshoni
- Siuslaw
- Skagit
- Snohomish
- Spanish
- Spokane
- Takelma
- Tanacross
- Tanaina
- Tanana, Lower
- Tanana, Upper
- Tenino
- Tewa
- Tillamook
- Timbisha
- Tiwa, Northern
- Tiwa, Southern
- Tlingit
- Tohono O'odham
- Tolowa
- Tonkawa
- Tsimshian
- Tübatulabal
- Tunica
- Tuscarora
- Tutelo
- Tututni
- Twana
- Umatilla
- Unami
- Ute-Southern Paiute
- Ventureño
- Wailaki
- Walla Walla
- Wampanoag
- Wappo
- Wasco-Wishram
- Washo
- Wichita
- Wintu
- Wiyot
- Wyandot
- Yakima
- Yaqui
- Yokuts
- Yuchi
- Yuki
- Yupik, Central
- Yupik, Central Siberian
- Yupik, Pacific Gulf
- Yurok
- Zuni
What is the Powhatan word for fire?
Most Powhatans would say Catzahanzamusheis as the Powhatan word for fire. (or literally flame.) Most of the Powhatan language is forgotten, though John Smith recites some in his books and diaries and author William Strachey, and some simple words can be found online.
What is the native American word for Big Paw or Big Paws?
There are more than 700 different Native American languages spoken in North and South America. You will have to be more specific. If you are not sure which language you are talking about, here is a partial list of the most common Native American languages in North America:
- Abnaki, Eastern
- Achumawi
- Afro-Seminole Creole
- Ahtena
- Alabama
- Aleut
- Alsea
- Angloromani
- Apache, Jicarilla
- Apache, Kiowa
- Apache, Lipan
- Apache, Mescalero-Chiricahua
- Apache, Western
- Arapaho
- Arikara
- Assiniboine
- Atakapa
- Atsugewi
- Barbareño
- Biloxi
- Blackfoot
- Caddo
- Cahuilla
- Carolina Algonquian
- Carolinian
- Catawba
- Cayuga
- Chamorro
- Chehalis, Lower
- Chehalis, Upper
- Cherokee
- Chetco
- Cheyenne
- Chickasaw
- Chimariko
- Chinook
- Chinook Wawa
- Chippewa
- Chitimacha
- Choctaw
- Chumash
- Clallam
- Cocopa
- Coeur d'Alene
- Columbia-Wenatchi
- Comanche
- Coos
- Coquille
- Cowlitz
- Cree, Plains
- Crow
- Cruzeño
- Cupeño
- Dakota
- Degexit'an
- Delaware
- Delaware, Pidgin
- Esselen
- Evenki
- Eyak
- Galice
- Gros Ventre
- Gwich'in
- Halkomelem
- Han
- Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai
- Hawai'i Creole English
- Hawai'i Pidgin Sign Language
- Hawaiian
- Hidatsa
- Ho-Chunk
- Holikachuk
- Hopi
- Hupa
- Ineseño
- Inupiaq
- Inupiatun, North Alaskan
- Inupiatun, Northwest Alaska
- Iowa-Oto
- Jemez
- Jingpho
- Kalapuya
- Kalispel-Pend D'oreille
- Kansa
- Karkin
- Karok
- Kashaya
- Kato
- Kawaiisu
- Keres, Eastern
- Keres, Western
- Kickapoo
- Kiowa
- Kitsai
- Klamath-Modoc
- Koasati
- Koyukon
- Kumiai
- Kuskokwim, Upper
- Kutenai
- Lakota
- Luiseño
- Lumbee
- Lushootseed
- Mahican
- Maidu, Northeast
- Maidu, Northwest
- Maidu, Valley
- Makah
- Malecite-Passamaquoddy
- Mandan
- Mattole
- Menominee
- Meskwaki
- Miami
- Michif
- Micmac
- Mikasuki
- Miwok, Bay
- Miwok, Central Sierra
- Miwok, Coast
- Miwok, Lake
- Miwok, Northern Sierra
- Miwok, Plains
- Miwok, Southern Sierra
- Mohave
- Mohawk
- Mohegan-Montauk-Narragansett
- Mokilese
- Molale
- Mono
- Muskogee
- Nanticoke
- Natchez
- Navajo
- Nawathinehena
- Nez Perce
- Nisenan
- Nooksack
- Nottoway
- Obispeño
- Ofo
- Ohlone, Northern
- Ohlone, Southern
- Okanagan
- Omaha-Ponca
- Oneida
- Onondaga
- Osage
- Ottawa
- Paiute, Northern
- Pawnee
- Piro
- Piscataway
- Plains Indian Sign Language
- Pomo, Central
- Pomo, Eastern
- Pomo, Northeastern
- Pomo, Northern
- Pomo, Southeastern
- Pomo, Southern
- Potawatomi
- Powhatan
- Purepecha
- Purisimeño
- Quapaw
- Quechan
- Quileute
- Quinault
- Salinan
- Salish, Southern Puget Sound
- Salish, Straits
- Sea Island Creole English
- Seneca
- Serrano
- Shasta
- Shawnee
- Shoshoni
- Siuslaw
- Skagit
- Snohomish
- Spanish
- Spokane
- Takelma
- Tanacross
- Tanaina
- Tanana, Lower
- Tanana, Upper
- Tenino
- Tewa
- Tillamook
- Timbisha
- Tiwa, Northern
- Tiwa, Southern
- Tlingit
- Tohono O'odham
- Tolowa
- Tonkawa
- Tsimshian
- Tübatulabal
- Tunica
- Tuscarora
- Tutelo
- Tututni
- Twana
- Umatilla
- Unami
- Ute-Southern Paiute
- Ventureño
- Wailaki
- Walla Walla
- Wampanoag
- Wappo
- Wasco-Wishram
- Washo
- Wichita
- Wintu
- Wiyot
- Wyandot
- Yakima
- Yaqui
- Yokuts
- Yuchi
- Yuki
- Yurok
- Zuni
What is the native American word for duck?
You need to be specific about which native American language you mean. Just a few out of many hundreds of possibilities are:
Sahaptin (Yakama dialect): ákak
Lakota: magášápa
Hidatsa: mida
Powhatan: cohonk (= wild goose, from its call)
Abenaki: wôbigilhakw or wôbtegua
Maliseet: wapi-kilahq or waptoq
Mohegan: káhôk
Naskapi: nisk
Ojibwe: nika or mikagoo or ikagoo or obizhashkisi or waab-wewe or apichikiwenzi
Cheyenne: héna'e
Arapaho: ne'na or nooksíísiic or nénebííhi'
Blackfoot: ómahkssa'áí
Tlingit: t'awakh awe
Inuit (InupiaQ): iqsrabutilik or mitilugruaq or kafuq
Aztec (Nahuatl): atlatlalcatl or concanauhtli or tlalalacatl or zoquicanauhtli
Shoshone: nekentan or kokax
Cherokee: sa-sa or dagula
Sanish (Arikara): koóhAt
In Plains sign language the word goose is expressed by making the sign for bird (hands flat at shoulders, making motion of wings) and then making a V-shape with the hands to show the way a flock of geese flies.
What is the native American word for gold?
There are more than 700 different Native American languages spoken in North and South America. You will have to be more specific. If you are not sure which language you are talking about, here is a partial list of the most common Native American languages in North America:
- Abnaki, Eastern
- Achumawi
- Afro-Seminole Creole
- Ahtena
- Alabama
- Aleut
- Alsea
- Angloromani
- Apache, Jicarilla
- Apache, Kiowa
- Apache, Lipan
- Apache, Mescalero-Chiricahua
- Apache, Western
- Arapaho
- Arikara
- Assiniboine
- Atakapa
- Atsugewi
- Barbareño
- Biloxi
- Blackfoot
- Caddo
- Cahuilla
- Carolina Algonquian
- Carolinian
- Catawba
- Cayuga
- Chamorro
- Chehalis, Lower
- Chehalis, Upper
- Cherokee
- Chetco
- Cheyenne
- Chickasaw
- Chimariko
- Chinook
- Chinook Wawa
- Chippewa
- Chitimacha
- Choctaw
- Chumash
- Clallam
- Cocopa
- Coeur d'Alene
- Columbia-Wenatchi
- Comanche
- Coos
- Coquille
- Cowlitz
- Cree, Plains
- Crow
- Cruzeño
- Cupeño
- Dakota
- Degexit'an
- Delaware
- Delaware, Pidgin
- Esselen
- Evenki
- Eyak
- Galice
- Gros Ventre
- Gwich'in
- Halkomelem
- Han
- Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai
- Hawai'i Creole English
- Hawai'i Pidgin Sign Language
- Hawaiian
- Hidatsa
- Ho-Chunk
- Holikachuk
- Hopi
- Hupa
- Ineseño
- Inupiaq
- Inupiatun, North Alaskan
- Inupiatun, Northwest Alaska
- Iowa-Oto
- Jemez
- Jingpho
- Kalapuya
- Kalispel-Pend D'oreille
- Kansa
- Karkin
- Karok
- Kashaya
- Kato
- Kawaiisu
- Keres, Eastern
- Keres, Western
- Kickapoo
- Kiowa
- Kitsai
- Klamath-Modoc
- Koasati
- Koyukon
- Kumiai
- Kuskokwim, Upper
- Kutenai
- Lakota
- Luiseño
- Lumbee
- Lushootseed
- Mahican
- Maidu, Northeast
- Maidu, Northwest
- Maidu, Valley
- Makah
- Malecite-Passamaquoddy
- Mandan
- Mattole
- Menominee
- Meskwaki
- Miami
- Michif
- Micmac
- Mikasuki
- Miwok, Bay
- Miwok, Central Sierra
- Miwok, Coast
- Miwok, Lake
- Miwok, Northern Sierra
- Miwok, Plains
- Miwok, Southern Sierra
- Mohave
- Mohawk
- Mohegan-Montauk-Narragansett
- Mokilese
- Molale
- Mono
- Muskogee
- Nanticoke
- Natchez
- Navajo
- Nawathinehena
- Nez Perce
- Nisenan
- Nooksack
- Nottoway
- Obispeño
- Ofo
- Ohlone, Northern
- Ohlone, Southern
- Okanagan
- Omaha-Ponca
- Oneida
- Onondaga
- Osage
- Ottawa
- Paiute, Northern
- Pawnee
- Piro
- Piscataway
- Plains Indian Sign Language
- Pomo, Central
- Pomo, Eastern
- Pomo, Northeastern
- Pomo, Northern
- Pomo, Southeastern
- Pomo, Southern
- Potawatomi
- Powhatan
- Purepecha
- Purisimeño
- Quapaw
- Quechan
- Quileute
- Quinault
- Salinan
- Salish, Southern Puget Sound
- Salish, Straits
- Sea Island Creole English
- Seneca
- Serrano
- Shasta
- Shawnee
- Shoshoni
- Siuslaw
- Skagit
- Snohomish
- Spanish
- Spokane
- Takelma
- Tanacross
- Tanaina
- Tanana, Lower
- Tanana, Upper
- Tenino
- Tewa
- Tillamook
- Timbisha
- Tiwa, Northern
- Tiwa, Southern
- Tlingit
- Tohono O'odham
- Tolowa
- Tonkawa
- Tsimshian
- Tübatulabal
- Tunica
- Tuscarora
- Tutelo
- Tututni
- Twana
- Umatilla
- Unami
- Ute-Southern Paiute
- Ventureño
- Wailaki
- Walla Walla
- Wampanoag
- Wappo
- Wasco-Wishram
- Washo
- Wichita
- Wintu
- Wiyot
- Wyandot
- Yakima
- Yaqui
- Yokuts
- Yuchi
- Yuki
- Yurok
- Zuni
How would you say little queen into the native American language?
No native American language has a word that means exactly the same as the European idea of "queen" - it was European explorers who began calling native female chiefs "queens" and male chiefs "emperors" and "kings". None of these has anything to do with native American cultures.
There have been many thousands of different native American languages throughout the Americas, not just one, so on both counts it is impossible to answer your question.
How do you say 12 in american indian languages?
In Lakota the word "twelve" is expressed by akenunpa or akenum.
In Arapaho it is béteetox níísiiní
In Cheyenne it is mahtohto-hohta-nexa
In Blackfoot it is náátsikopotto
In Navajo it is naakits'aadah
In Shawnee it is neesh-wie lethie
In Abenaki it is nisônkaw
In Maliseet it is nisanku
In Naskapi it is niisaap
In Ojibwe it is ashi-niizh
In Mohegan it is páyaq napni nis
In Inca (Quechua) it is chunka iskayniyuq
In Aztec (Nahuatl) it is matlacome or matlactli huan ome
In Choctaw it is awah toklo
In Mohawk it is tekeni-yawenre
In Cherokee it is talidu
In Haida it is tláahl wáak sdáng
How do you say namaste in all Indian languages?
Assamese = নমস্কাৰ (nomoskaar)
Bengali = নমস্কার (nômoshkar) (muslims say আসসালামু আলাইকুম (assalamualaikum))
Bhojpuri = प्रणाम (prannam)
English = hello
Hindi = नमस्ते (namaste)
Kannada = ನಮಸ್ತೆ (namaste)
Malayalam = നമസ്തെ (namaste)
Nepali = नमस्ते (namaste)
Oriya = ନମସ୍ତେ (namaste)
Punjabi = ਨਮਸਕਾਰ / نمسکار (namaskar)
Sinhala = ආයුඛෝවන් (āyubūvan)
Tamil = வணக்கம் (vaṇakkam)
Telugu = ఏమండీ (aemaṅdee)
Urdu = (āssālam 'alaykum) السلام علیکم
What is the native American word for unicorn?
There are more than 700 different Native American languages spoken in North and South America. You will have to be more specific. If you are not sure which language you are talking about, here is a partial list of the most common Native American languages in North America:
- Abnaki, Eastern
- Achumawi
- Afro-Seminole Creole
- Ahtena
- Alabama
- Aleut
- Alsea
- Angloromani
- Apache, Jicarilla
- Apache, Kiowa
- Apache, Lipan
- Apache, Mescalero-Chiricahua
- Apache, Western
- Arapaho
- Arikara
- Assiniboine
- Atakapa
- Atsugewi
- Barbareño
- Biloxi
- Blackfoot
- Caddo
- Cahuilla
- Carolina Algonquian
- Carolinian
- Catawba
- Cayuga
- Chamorro
- Chehalis, Lower
- Chehalis, Upper
- Cherokee
- Chetco
- Cheyenne
- Chickasaw
- Chimariko
- Chinook
- Chinook Wawa
- Chippewa
- Chitimacha
- Choctaw
- Chumash
- Clallam
- Cocopa
- Coeur d'Alene
- Columbia-Wenatchi
- Comanche
- Coos
- Coquille
- Cowlitz
- Cree, Plains
- Crow
- Cruzeño
- Cupeño
- Dakota
- Degexit'an
- Delaware
- Delaware, Pidgin
- Esselen
- Evenki
- Eyak
- Galice
- Gros Ventre
- Gwich'in
- Halkomelem
- Han
- Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai
- Hawai'i Creole English
- Hawai'i Pidgin Sign Language
- Hawaiian
- Hidatsa
- Ho-Chunk
- Holikachuk
- Hopi
- Hupa
- Ineseño
- Inupiaq
- Inupiatun, North Alaskan
- Inupiatun, Northwest Alaska
- Iowa-Oto
- Jemez
- Jingpho
- Kalapuya
- Kalispel-Pend D'oreille
- Kansa
- Karkin
- Karok
- Kashaya
- Kato
- Kawaiisu
- Keres, Eastern
- Keres, Western
- Kickapoo
- Kiowa
- Kitsai
- Klamath-Modoc
- Koasati
- Koyukon
- Kumiai
- Kuskokwim, Upper
- Kutenai
- Lakota
- Luiseño
- Lumbee
- Lushootseed
- Mahican
- Maidu, Northeast
- Maidu, Northwest
- Maidu, Valley
- Makah
- Malecite-Passamaquoddy
- Mandan
- Mattole
- Menominee
- Meskwaki
- Miami
- Michif
- Micmac
- Mikasuki
- Miwok, Bay
- Miwok, Central Sierra
- Miwok, Coast
- Miwok, Lake
- Miwok, Northern Sierra
- Miwok, Plains
- Miwok, Southern Sierra
- Mohave
- Mohawk
- Mohegan-Montauk-Narragansett
- Mokilese
- Molale
- Mono
- Muskogee
- Nanticoke
- Natchez
- Navajo
- Nawathinehena
- Nez Perce
- Nisenan
- Nooksack
- Nottoway
- Obispeño
- Ofo
- Ohlone, Northern
- Ohlone, Southern
- Okanagan
- Omaha-Ponca
- Oneida
- Onondaga
- Osage
- Ottawa
- Paiute, Northern
- Pawnee
- Piro
- Piscataway
- Plains Indian Sign Language
- Pomo, Central
- Pomo, Eastern
- Pomo, Northeastern
- Pomo, Northern
- Pomo, Southeastern
- Pomo, Southern
- Potawatomi
- Powhatan
- Purepecha
- Purisimeño
- Quapaw
- Quechan
- Quileute
- Quinault
- Salinan
- Salish, Southern Puget Sound
- Salish, Straits
- Sea Island Creole English
- Seneca
- Serrano
- Shasta
- Shawnee
- Shoshoni
- Siuslaw
- Skagit
- Snohomish
- Spanish
- Spokane
- Takelma
- Tanacross
- Tanaina
- Tanana, Lower
- Tanana, Upper
- Tenino
- Tewa
- Tillamook
- Timbisha
- Tiwa, Northern
- Tiwa, Southern
- Tlingit
- Tohono O'odham
- Tolowa
- Tonkawa
- Tsimshian
- Tübatulabal
- Tunica
- Tuscarora
- Tutelo
- Tututni
- Twana
- Umatilla
- Unami
- Ute-Southern Paiute
- Ventureño
- Wailaki
- Walla Walla
- Wampanoag
- Wappo
- Wasco-Wishram
- Washo
- Wichita
- Wintu
- Wiyot
- Wyandot
- Yakima
- Yaqui
- Yokuts
- Yuchi
- Yuki
- Yurok
- Zuni
What is the native American word for Plateau?
There are more than 700 different Native American languages spoken in North and South America. You will have to be more specific. If you are not sure which language you are talking about, here is a partial list of the most common Native American languages in North America:
- Abnaki, Eastern
- Achumawi
- Afro-Seminole Creole
- Ahtena
- Alabama
- Aleut
- Alsea
- Angloromani
- Apache, Jicarilla
- Apache, Kiowa
- Apache, Lipan
- Apache, Mescalero-Chiricahua
- Apache, Western
- Arapaho
- Arikara
- Assiniboine
- Atakapa
- Atsugewi
- Barbareño
- Biloxi
- Blackfoot
- Caddo
- Cahuilla
- Carolina Algonquian
- Carolinian
- Catawba
- Cayuga
- Chamorro
- Chehalis, Lower
- Chehalis, Upper
- Cherokee
- Chetco
- Cheyenne
- Chickasaw
- Chimariko
- Chinook
- Chinook Wawa
- Chippewa
- Chitimacha
- Choctaw
- Chumash
- Clallam
- Cocopa
- Coeur d'Alene
- Columbia-Wenatchi
- Comanche
- Coos
- Coquille
- Cowlitz
- Cree, Plains
- Crow
- Cruzeño
- Cupeño
- Dakota
- Degexit'an
- Delaware
- Delaware, Pidgin
- Esselen
- Evenki
- Eyak
- Galice
- Gros Ventre
- Gwich'in
- Halkomelem
- Han
- Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai
- Hawai'i Creole English
- Hawai'i Pidgin Sign Language
- Hawaiian
- Hidatsa
- Ho-Chunk
- Holikachuk
- Hopi
- Hupa
- Ineseño
- Inupiaq
- Inupiatun, North Alaskan
- Inupiatun, Northwest Alaska
- Iowa-Oto
- Jemez
- Jingpho
- Kalapuya
- Kalispel-Pend D'oreille
- Kansa
- Karkin
- Karok
- Kashaya
- Kato
- Kawaiisu
- Keres, Eastern
- Keres, Western
- Kickapoo
- Kiowa
- Kitsai
- Klamath-Modoc
- Koasati
- Koyukon
- Kumiai
- Kuskokwim, Upper
- Kutenai
- Lakota
- Luiseño
- Lumbee
- Lushootseed
- Mahican
- Maidu, Northeast
- Maidu, Northwest
- Maidu, Valley
- Makah
- Malecite-Passamaquoddy
- Mandan
- Mattole
- Menominee
- Meskwaki
- Miami
- Michif
- Micmac
- Mikasuki
- Miwok, Bay
- Miwok, Central Sierra
- Miwok, Coast
- Miwok, Lake
- Miwok, Northern Sierra
- Miwok, Plains
- Miwok, Southern Sierra
- Mohave
- Mohawk
- Mohegan-Montauk-Narragansett
- Mokilese
- Molale
- Mono
- Muskogee
- Nanticoke
- Natchez
- Navajo
- Nawathinehena
- Nez Perce
- Nisenan
- Nooksack
- Nottoway
- Obispeño
- Ofo
- Ohlone, Northern
- Ohlone, Southern
- Okanagan
- Omaha-Ponca
- Oneida
- Onondaga
- Osage
- Ottawa
- Paiute, Northern
- Pawnee
- Piro
- Piscataway
- Plains Indian Sign Language
- Pomo, Central
- Pomo, Eastern
- Pomo, Northeastern
- Pomo, Northern
- Pomo, Southeastern
- Pomo, Southern
- Potawatomi
- Powhatan
- Purepecha
- Purisimeño
- Quapaw
- Quechan
- Quileute
- Quinault
- Salinan
- Salish, Southern Puget Sound
- Salish, Straits
- Sea Island Creole English
- Seneca
- Serrano
- Shasta
- Shawnee
- Shoshoni
- Siuslaw
- Skagit
- Snohomish
- Spanish
- Spokane
- Takelma
- Tanacross
- Tanaina
- Tanana, Lower
- Tanana, Upper
- Tenino
- Tewa
- Tillamook
- Timbisha
- Tiwa, Northern
- Tiwa, Southern
- Tlingit
- Tohono O'odham
- Tolowa
- Tonkawa
- Tsimshian
- Tübatulabal
- Tunica
- Tuscarora
- Tutelo
- Tututni
- Twana
- Umatilla
- Unami
- Ute-Southern Paiute
- Ventureño
- Wailaki
- Walla Walla
- Wampanoag
- Wappo
- Wasco-Wishram
- Washo
- Wichita
- Wintu
- Wiyot
- Wyandot
- Yakima
- Yaqui
- Yokuts
- Yuchi
- Yuki
- Yurok
- Zuni
What is the Cherokee word for puma?
A puma is also called a cougar. The Cherokee word for cougar is tlv-da-tsi.
Who were native Americans of the cape cod area?
The Wampanoag tribes; the Mashpee and Nauset sections specifically occupied the area that became Cape Cod.
What is a Native American word meaning grace?
There are many different Native American languages.
Some possible words:
Lakota/Sioux: wóyawašte = blessing
Cherokee (Aniyawiya): adadolisdi = grace, mercy, recognize, sympathize
Inuit: saimarnert = consolation, grace
Ojibwe: zhawenjigewin+an = grace
Yupik: atawwauguq = it is a blessing
What is the native American language of raccoon?
- Names describing agile forepaws
- Abnaki: asban, one who lifts up things
- Algonkin: ah-rah-koon-em, they rub, scrub, scratch
- Atakapa: welkol, (wilkol, wulkol, wutko), they rub and scratch
- Aztec: mapachitl, they take everything in their hands
- Biloxi-Sioux: atuki, they touch things
- Chinook: q'oala's, they scratch
- Chippewa: aasebun, aissibun, they pick up things
- Choctaw: shauii, graspers
- Cree: essebanes, they pick up things
- Creek: wutki, they rub and scratch
- Delaware: eespan, one who picks up things; wtakalinch, one very clever with its fingers
- Lenape: eespan, hespan, they handle things; nachenum, they use hands as a tool
- Menomini: aispan, they handle things
- Mohican: sha-we, grasper
- Natick: asban, they pick up things
- Ofo-Sioux: at-cha, one who touches things
- Ojibway: aispun, essepan, they pick up things
- Seminole: wood-ko, one who rubs
- Shawnee: shapata, ethepata, grasper
- Takelma: swini, picks up things with hands
- Tschimshean: que-o-koo, washes with hands
- Yakima: k'alas they scratch
- Names describing face
- Dakota-Sioux: weekah tegalega, magic one with painted face
- Hopi: shiuaa, painted one
- Huron-Iroquois: attigbro, blackened (face); gahado-goka-gogosa, masked demon spirit
- Mandan: nashi, blackened face and feet
- Mexico (tribe not given): macheelee, white bands on face
- Nicaragua (tribe not given): macheelee, white bands on face
- Wyot: cbel'igacocib, one with marked face
- Names implying magic (both sexes)
- Cheyenne: macho-on, one who makes magic
- Dakota Sioux: wee-kah, (wee-chah, wee-kahsah, wici, wicha) one with magic; wee-kah tegalega, magic one with painted face (or wici)
- Omaha, Osage, Otoe: mee-kah, (mee-chah, mee-kahsa) same meaning as wee-chah and variants one with magic
- Sioux: macca-n-e, one who makes real magic
- Yankton Sioux: wayatcha, (same root word as wee-kah)
- Names for females with magic
- Mexico (used by Aztecs, but probably borrowed from another trib): see-o-ahtlah-ma-kas-kay (cioatlamacasque), she who talks with spirits; ee-yah-mah-tohn, she (little old one) who knows things
- Yakima: tsa-ga-gla-tal, she who watches (legendary); witch, spirit
- Names describing big tail (long tail, ringed tail)
- Chinook: siah-opoots-itswoot, long-tailed bearlike one
- Huron: ee-ree-ah-gee, those of big-tailed (long-tailed) kind
- Iroquois: gah-gwah-gee, cah-hee-ah-gway, big (long) tailed ones
- Sioux: shinte-gleska, ring-tailed ones
- Seneca: kagh-quau-ga, big (long) tailed
- Wyandot: ee-ree, big-tailed, long-tailed ones
- Names comparing to dog
- Arawak: ah-ohn, dog, of dog kind
- Guyana: mayuato, doglike leaper
- Huron-Iroquois: agaua, doglike one
- Klamath: wacgina, tamed like dog
- Narragansett: ausup, night doglike one
- Taino: ah-ohn, ah-oon, of the dog kind
- Tupi: agwara, doglike leaper
- Names indicating eaters of crabs, crayfish
- Choctaw: shauii, graspers (of crayfish)
- Guyana: mauyato, doglike leaper on crabs and crayfish
- Kiowa: seip-kuat, pulls out crayfish with hands (seip-mantei, crayfish)
- Tupi: aguara-po-pay, doglike leaper on crabs, crayfish (used by other tribes in the Tupi trade-jargon area)
- Names for pelt only or sewn pelt garment
- Algonkin: match-koh (for pelt or pelt sewn into poncho-type coat)
- Algonkin-Roanoke: macquoc
- Narragansett: mohewonck, pelt sewn into poncho-type coat (wonck=coat)
- Ojibway: matchigode, raccoon fur garment for women
- Wocoon: auher
- Alaska/Canada: tsick-re-buck, Indian version of schupp/raccoon?
- Iroquois: tschoe-ra-gak, Indian version of schupp, used by traders asking first for schupp and then raccoon skins--neither word known to Indians?
- Names without literal meanings
- Blackfeet: kaka-nostake
- Brazil (tribe not given): guassini, guachini
- Caddo: o'at
- Canada (tribe not given): ottaguin, ochateguin
- Iroquois: tcokda
- Mikwok: patkas
- Nez Perce: kai-kai-yuts
- Nootka: klapissime
- Pima: va-owok
- Suislaw: pilquits
- Taos: pah-suh-de-na, water?
- Tillamook: dEwu'si, living raccoons; wEluhs,legendary raccoon
- Tuscorora: roosotto
- Tutelo: kanulo-nixa-niso
- Non-Indian names
- American-English: coon, rattoon
- Canadian French: chat, chat sauvage, cat, European wildcat
- Danish: skjob, fisher, fur trade name
- Dutch: schob, fisher, fur trade name
- French: raton, raton laveur, little rat, little washer rat
- Finland: siupp, fisher, fur trade name
- German: schupp, fisher, fur trade name; washbär,washer bear, from Linnaeus Ursus lotor
- Latin: Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, 1747: Ursus cauda elongata; 1748: Ursus cauda annulata, fascia per oculos transversali; 1758: Ursus lotor
- Latin: Hernández, Francisco, Historiae Animalium...Novai Hispaniae, 1651: cane melitensi,badgerlike dog
- Lithuanian: sunluskis, dog-bear
- Polish: szop, fisher, fur trade name
- Russian: jenot, fisher, fur trade name
- Spanish: mapache, from Aztec, mapachitli, uses hands; oso lavador, washer bear (from Linnaeus); perro mastin, mudo, tejón, masked, barkless, badgerlike dog, popular usage
- Swedish: sjupp fisher, fur trade name; tváttbjörn, from Linnaeus, washer bear
What does seba mean in native american language?
Which particular native American language? There are many hundreds to chose from.
