English Explanatory Dictionary

Tonkawa

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of a Midwestern Native American tribe indigenous to present-day Oklahoma and Texas.
name
  1. The extinct language once spoken by these people.
  2. A city in Kay County, Oklahoma, United States.

Word forms

Tonkawa Tonkawas

Etymology

From Wichita tonkaweya (“those who stay together”), compare Tonkawa Tickanwa•tic (“(a) genuine people”).

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