Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

Crow en · NOUN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • krō
  • /kɹoʊ/

Etymology

From French gens de corbeaux, calque of Dakota apsáaloke (“crow people”). Compare Crow Apsáalooke.

Meanings

  1. 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:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
Crows Number=Plur lexicographic
Crow Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

Apsáalooke · Absáalooke · Crow Indian · Absaroka

Translations (4)

bla Issapó (Translations) · cro Apsáalooke (Translations) · hid gixaaʔiccá (Translations) · de Krähenindianer (Translations)

Crow en · PROPN · etymology 1

Pronunciation

  • krō
  • /kɹoʊ/

Etymology

From French gens de corbeaux, calque of Dakota apsáaloke (“crow people”). Compare Crow Apsáalooke.

Meanings

  1. The Siouan language of this tribe.

Synonyms

Absaroki

Crow en · PROPN · etymology 2

Etymology

* 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).

Meanings

  1. A surname.

Deriveds

Crow-Fukase syndrome