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Cheyenne

UK/ʃaɪˈæn/ US/ʃaɪˈeə̯n/ fairly common

noun

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a member of a North American Indian people living on the western plains (now living in Oklahoma and Montana)

Origin

Borrowed from French Cheyenne, from Dakota šahíyena, from Dakota šaia (“to speak incoherently”), from Dakota ša (“red”) and Dakota ya (“to speak”).

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