Etymology

Arikara

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Today it means: A member of a tribe of Native Americans in what is today North Dakota, who are today enrolled with the Mandan and the Hidatsa as the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation. Full definition →

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The story

  1. ari · derived fromaríka“horn”
  2. English todayArikara

Possibly from Arikara aríka (“horn”), or árikaraahkucuʾ (“bull elk,” literally “ones with big horns”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.