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Cherokee

Cherokee

See also: cherokee

English

Proper noun

Cherokee

  1. An indigenous North American people.
  2. Their Iroquoian language, still spoken in Oklahoma and North Carolina.
  3. A syllabary for the Cherokee language invented by Sequoyah.

Translations

Noun

Cherokee ‎(plural Cherokees)

  1. A member of this people.

Translations

References

  1. ↑ Cherokee Indian Tribe, Access Genealogy (September 21, 2009)
  2. ↑ Milton E. Campbell, The State of North Carolina with Native American Ancestry (ISBN 1426957475), page 39: "The Iroquois called the Cherokee Oyata'ge'ronon[,] which means inhabitants of the cave country."
  3. ↑ “Cherokee” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001).
  4. ↑ Charles A. Hanna, The Wilderness Trail (New York, 1911)

Dutch

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Cherokee ?

  1. the Cherokee people
  2. their language

Noun

Cherokee

  1. a member of this people

cherokee

cherokee

See also: Cherokee

Finnish

Noun

cherokee

  1. A Cherokee (member of a native North American ethnic group)
  2. Cherokee (their language)

Declension

Inflection of cherokee (Kotus type 20/filee, no gradation)
nominative cherokee cherokeet
genitive cherokeen cherokeiden
cherokeitten
partitive cherokeeta cherokeita
illative cherokeehen
cherokeeseen 		cherokeihin
cherokeisiin
singular plural
nominative cherokee cherokeet
accusative nom. cherokee cherokeet
gen. cherokeen
genitive cherokeen cherokeiden
cherokeitten
partitive cherokeeta cherokeita
inessive cherokeessa cherokeissa
elative cherokeesta cherokeista
illative cherokeehen
cherokeeseen 		cherokeihin
cherokeisiin
adessive cherokeella cherokeilla
ablative cherokeelta cherokeilta
allative cherokeelle cherokeille
essive cherokeena cherokeina
translative cherokeeksi cherokeiksi
instructive — cherokein
abessive cherokeetta cherokeitta
comitative — cherokeineen

French

Alternative forms

  • cherokî
  • chérokî
  • tchérokî

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ʃe.ʁɔ.ki/

Adjective

cherokee m, f ‎(plural cherokees)

  1. Cherokee

Noun

cherokee m ‎(uncountable)

  1. Cherokee (language)

Portuguese

Alternative forms

Noun

cherokee m f (plural cherokees)

  1. Cherokee (member of the Cherokee people)

Noun

cherokee m (uncountable)

  1. Cherokee (language spoken by the Cherokee people)

Etymology

Most likely from the Cherokee autonym ᏣᎳᎩ ‎(tsalagi). Derivation from a Choctaw exonym meaning "those who live in caves" (compare chiluk ‎(“cave”)) has also been suggested[1] — the Iroquois term for the Cherokee was Oyata'ge'ronon ‎(“inhabitants of the cave country”)[2] — as has derivation from a Creek term for "person(s) who speak(s) a non-Creek language" (see celokketv ‎(“to speak a non-creek language”)).

Whatever its origin, the ethnonym entered European languages at an early date, perhaps as early as the 1670s;[3] in Spanish, the people are called the Tchalaquei as early as 1755.[4]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛr.ə.kiː/

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