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Arapaho

/əˈɹeɪpəhoʊ/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A town, the county seat of Custer County, Oklahoma, United States.
  2. The Algonquian language of this people.
  3. A member of a Native American people of Wyoming and Oklahoma.

Etymology / origin

From a Siouan language, perhaps Hidatsa arúpahu (“Arapaho person”) or Crow aaraxpéahu (“tattooed person”).

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