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Cheyenne en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ʃaɪˈɪ̟n/ (pin-pen-merger)
  • (US) audio
  • /ʃaɪˈeə̯n/ æ-raising
  • /ʃaɪˈɛn/
  • /ʃaɪˈæn/ without æ-raising
  • /ʃaɪˈɛə̯n/ æ-raising

Etymology

Borrowed from French Cheyenne, from Dakota šahíyena, from Dakota šaia (“to speak incoherently”), from Dakota ša (“red”) and Dakota ya (“to speak”).

Meanings

  1. A member of an indigenous people of the Great Plains in North America.
    • You will want to tell him that you are Cheyenne, that that is where you are from, that Cheyennes once, up near the Great Lakes, were agricultural people, and then followed the buffalo before running for their lives like the buffalo, and that your people, they were Cheyenne wherever they went, but instead you just say the word Cheyenne, with your hand over your heart, to which he will say the word Lakota with his hand over his heart. 2024, Tommy Orange, Wandering Stars, Harvill Secker, page 108:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
Cheyennes Number=Plur lexicographic
Cheyenne Number=Plur lexicographic

Deriveds

Cheyenne County

Translations (11)

dak Šahíyena (member of the Cheyenne people) · lkt Šahíyela (member of the Cheyenne people) · chy Tsitsistaists (member of the Cheyenne people) · pl Czejen (member of the Cheyenne people) · el Τσεγιέν (member of the Cheyenne people) · sv cheyenne (member of the Cheyenne people) · pl Czejenka (member of the Cheyenne people) · chy Tsétsêhéstaestse (member of the Cheyenne people) · fr Cheyenne (member of the Cheyenne people) · cs Čejen (member of the Cheyenne people) · unm Shëlatihka (member of the Cheyenne people)

Cheyenne en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • /ʃaɪˈɪ̟n/ (pin-pen-merger)
  • (US) audio
  • /ʃaɪˈeə̯n/ æ-raising
  • /ʃaɪˈɛn/
  • /ʃaɪˈæn/ without æ-raising
  • /ʃaɪˈɛə̯n/ æ-raising

Etymology

Borrowed from French Cheyenne, from Dakota šahíyena, from Dakota šaia (“to speak incoherently”), from Dakota ša (“red”) and Dakota ya (“to speak”).

Meanings

  1. An Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne people.
    • "He don't talk English, only Cheyenne and sign." "You speak Cheyenne," Mason argued. "Why does he need an interpreter?" 1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, War Shirt; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 108:
  2. The capital and largest city of Wyoming, United States and the county seat of Laramie County; named for the people.
  3. A river in the United States; flowing 295 miles from the confluence of the Antelope and Dry Fork creeks in Thunder Basin National Grassland, Wyoming into Lake Oahe, a reservoir of the Missouri River, at Mission Ridge, South Dakota.
  4. A town, the county seat of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, United States.
  5. A female or male given name of modern American usage.

Deriveds

Cheyenne Wells

Relateds

Wiktionary’s coverage of Cheyenne terms

Translations (17)

la Cheyenna (city in Wyoming) · fi cheyenne (language) · ru шайе́нн (language) · hy շեյեն (language) · ru чейе́нн (language) · arn cheyenne dungun (language) · de Cheyenne (city in Wyoming) · lv Šaiena (city in Wyoming) · twf sayénuna (language) · sv cheyenne (language) · da Cheyenne (city in Wyoming) · chr ᏣᏰᏂ (language) · lkt Wakpá Wašté (river in Wyoming and South Dakota) · chy Tsêhesenêstsestôtse (language) · ru Шайе́нн (city in Wyoming) · el Τσεγιέν (city in Wyoming) · ru Чейе́нн (city in Wyoming)