English Explanatory Dictionary

Potawatomi

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of a Native American people of the upper Mississippi River region.
name
  1. The Algonquian language spoken by the Potawatomi people.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Potawatomi.wav /ˌpɔtəˈwɑtəmi/ pôʹ-tə-wäʹ-tə-mē

Word forms

Potawatomi Potawatomis Bodéwadmi Potawatami Pottawatomie Pottawatomi Pottawattamie Pottawattomi

Etymology

Borrowed from Ojibwe boodawaadamii or Potawatomi Bodéwademi (“those who tend the fire”) (unsyncoped form of Bodéwadmi), from boodawaadam/bodewadm (“hearth”).

Related words

pot ⁠

Derived words

Pottawatomie County Pottawattamie Park
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on P Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary