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Pages in category "Surnames of Indian origin" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 1,072 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
This is a list of Spanish words that come from indigenous languages of the Americas. It is further divided into words that come from Arawakan, Aymara, Carib, Mayan, Nahuatl, Quechua, Taíno, Tarahumara, Tupi and uncertain (the word is known to be from the Americas, but the exact source language is unclear).
If the last name ends in [a], then removing the [j] would give the name of the patriarch or the place, as in, Grudaj - j = Gruda (place in MM). Otherwise, removing the whole ending [aj] yields the name of founder or place of origin, as in Lekaj - aj = Lek(ë). Since the names are found most commonly in Malsi e Madhe (North) and Labëri (South ...
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The name "Wyoming" comes from a Delaware Tribe word Mechaweami-ing or "maughwauwa-ma", meaning large plains or extensive meadows, which was the tribe's name for a valley in northern Pennsylvania. The name Wyoming was first proposed for use in the American West by Senator Ashley of Ohio in 1865 in a bill to create a temporary government for ...
American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America. Oxford: Oxford University Press; Flexner, Stuart Berg and Leonore Crary Hauck, eds. (1987). The Random House Dictionary of the English Language [RHD], 2nd ed. (unabridged). New York: Random House. Siebert, Frank T. (1975).
Annoyingly, they confuse it with popular (non-Indian) names that sound similar: Jayden or Jalen. When it's my kid's name, I always correct people when they say it wrong.
List of country names in various languages (J–P) ... San Cristóbal y Nieves (Spanish), Sant Kitts-Nevis (Welsh), Sānt Kīts wa-Nīfīs - سَانْت كِيتْس ...