Cheyenne

Meaning

1. A town, the county seat of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, United States.
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 member of an indigenous people of the Great Plains in North America.
5. A female or male given name of modern American usage.
6. An Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne people.

Etymology / origin

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

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