The story
- Choctaw · derived frompa̱shi“hair (on the head)”
- English todayPensacola
From Choctaw pa̱shi (“hair (on the head)”) + okla (“people”). Literally, “people of the long hair”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Pensacola
Today it means: A Native American people who lived in the western part of what is now the Florida Panhandle and eastern Alabama for centuries before first contact with Europeans until early in the 18th century. Full definition →
Choctaw pa̱shi