English Explanatory Dictionary

Costanoan

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of the Ohlone people, native to the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas, California.
name
  1. The Utian (Penutian) family of languages of this people.

Word forms

Costanoan Costanoans

Etymology

From Spanish Costeños (“coastal people”). The Spanish explorers and Missionaries to Northern California called the native people of the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas the Costeños as early as 1769.

Synonyms

Ohlone Muwekma

Related words

Awaswas Chalon Chochenyo Karkin Mutsun Ramaytush Rumsen Tamyen
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