Etymology

Arapaho

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Today it means: A member of a Native American people of Wyoming and Oklahoma. Full definition →

Hidatsa arúpahu ← Crow aaraxpéahu
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The story

  1. Crow · borrowed fromaaraxpéahu“tattooed person”
  2. Hidatsa · borrowed fromarúpahu“Arapaho person”
  3. English todayArapaho

From a Siouan language, perhaps Hidatsa arúpahu (“Arapaho person”) or Crow aaraxpéahu (“tattooed person”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.