Etymology

Assiniboine

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Today it means: A member of an indigenous people related to the Sioux living in the Great Plains in the United States and Canada. Full definition →

French Assiniboine ← Ojibwe asinii-bwaan
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The story

  1. Ojibweasinii-bwaan
  2. FrenchAssiniboine
  3. English todayAssiniboine

Unadapted borrowing from French Assiniboine, a transcription of Ojibwe asinii-bwaan (“stone Sioux”)/ᐊᓯᓃᑇᐣ.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.