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Crow en · NOUN · etymology 1
Pronunciation
krō
/kɹoʊ/
Etymology
From French gens de corbeaux, calque of Dakota apsáaloke (“crow people”). Compare Crow Apsáalooke.
Meanings
A member of a Native American tribe of southern Montana.
He became a captive of a small raiding party of Crow Indians. 1950, Dorothy M. Johnson, A Man Called Horse; in Indian Country, London: Corgi, 1961, page 171:
* From Middle English Crowe, as an Old English surname, related to crow.
* As an Irish surname, from mac Conchradha. See McEnroe.
* Also as an Irish surname, calque of Irish fiach (“crow, raven”) (see also Fee).