The story
- O'odham · derived fromBa꞉bawĭkoʼa“they eat tepary beans”
- Spanish · borrowed fromPápago
- English todayPapago
Borrowed from Spanish Pápago, itself from O'odham Ba꞉bawĭkoʼa (“they eat tepary beans”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: A Uto-Aztecan people of southern Arizona and Sonora in northern Mexico. Today they are known as the Tohono O'odham ("the Desert People"). Full definition →
Borrowed from Spanish Pápago, itself from O'odham Ba꞉bawĭkoʼa (“they eat tepary beans”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.