Taos
See also: taos and t-aos
English
Etymology
From Taos tə̂o (“village”), as in tə̂otho (“in the village”) or tə̂obo (“to the village”), via Spanish Taos (“Taos”).
Proper noun
Taos
- An indigenous, Tiwa-speaking people of New Mexico who inhabit a pueblo there.
- The pueblo which they inhabit, which, being about one thousand years old, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited sites in the United States.
- The Kiowa-Tanoan lect they speak, which is either closely related to or a dialect of northern Tiwa.
- A town, the county seat of Taos County, New Mexico, south of Taos Pueblo.
- A city and town in Missouri.
Derived terms
- Taos County
Translations
ethnic group
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pueblo
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town
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See also
- Wiktionary’s coverage of Taos terms
Further reading
- Ethnologue entry for Taos, twf
Anagrams
- OTAs, SOTA, Sato, Sota, Tsao, as to, oast, oats, stoa, toas, tosa