name
Meaning 1
The extinct Siouan language once spoken by the Biloxi.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
Biloxi
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Sound
Pronunciation
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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CMU ARPABET: B AH0 L AH1 K S IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A city in and one of the two county seats of Harrison County, Mississippi, United States.
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name
Meaning 3
A village in southeastern Texas.
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noun
Meaning 4
A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting an area near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in southeast Mississippi.
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noun
Meaning 5
the Siouan language spoken by the Biloxi
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Siouan, Siouan language
noun
Meaning 6
an old town in southern Mississippi on the Gulf of Mexico
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Broader terms: town
noun
Meaning 7
a member of the Siouan people of southeastern Mississippi
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: Sioux, Siouan
History
Etymology
Borrowed from French bilocchy (recorded by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville in 1699), itself a corruption of Biloxi Tanêks ąyaadi (literally “first people”). The shift of /t/ to /b/ and /n/ to /l/ occurred via Mobilian, however James Owen Dorsey has stated that this “agrees with the laws of Siouan consonant changes”.
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