The story
- Shawnee · derived fromsaawanwa“Shawnee”
- English todayShawnee
Ultimately from Shawnee saawanwa (“Shawnee”) or saawanoki (“southerners”), a hypothetical intermediary term is sometimes supposed to have facilitated the entry into English, such as Munsee sawanow. Likely a re-analysis of Shawnese as the plural Shawnees.
Words from the same roots
Shawneesaawanwa all →
saawanwa
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.