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Sioux is a Siouan language spoken by over 30,000 Sioux in the United States and ... de Reuse, Willem J. (1987). One hundred years of Lakota linguistics (1887–1987).
Words from the Sioux language, including Dakota and Lakota. Pages in category "Lakota words and phrases" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total.
Chokio – from Dakota or Sioux word for "the middle" [76] Cohasset – named after Cohasset, Massachusetts, from the Massachusett word "Conahasset," possibly meaning "long rocky place" [77] or "fishing promontory." [78] Cokato – named after a Siouan word meaning "amid" [79] Endion – from Ojibwe Endaayaan: "where I live" [80] [81]
One of the many ways Native American influence shines through the United States is in our place names.
Lakota (Lakȟótiyapi [laˈkˣɔtɪjapɪ]), also referred to as Lakhota, Teton or Teton Sioux, is a Siouan language spoken by the Lakota people of the Sioux tribes. Lakota is mutually intelligible with the two dialects of the Dakota language, especially Western Dakota, and is one of the three major varieties of the Sioux language.
This concept and phrase is expressed in many Yankton Sioux prayers, [2] as well as by ceremonial people in other Lakota communities. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The phrase translates in English as "all my relatives," "we are all related," or "all my relations."
In the Dakota language, affixes are used to change the meaning of words by attaching to the root word. Affixes can be added to both nouns and verbs, and they come in the form of prefixes and suffixes. Prefixes are added to the beginning of a word, infixes inside of the word, and suffixes are added to the end of a word.
This etymology/meaning is not present in online Dakota and Lakota dictionaries and is not present or is rejected in discussions of wašíču by academic linguists. Though many Sioux people themselves now report "he who takes the fat" as the original meaning of wašíču, this explanation of the word may be a relatively recent phenomenon.