🇵🇹Portuguese Source WordCode: PT

Cheiene

Pronunciation / Transliteration: ʃeˈjẽni

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Cheyenne/ʃaɪˈæn/
nounadjectiveCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #8500 frequency
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🇵🇹 Example Sentence in Portuguese:

"Os cheienes habitavam historicamente as Grandes Planícies."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A member of an Indigenous Plains Native American people historically inhabiting the region from southern Minnesota to the Black Hills of South Dakota.

    "The Cheyenne nation has a rich cultural heritage rooted in the Great Plains."
  2. 2

    The capital city of the state of Wyoming, located in the southeastern part of the state.

    "We stopped in Cheyenne for the annual Frontier Days rodeo."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Dakota Sioux exonym 'Ša히yena', meaning 'people of the alien speech', which was adopted into French as 'Châtillons' or 'Chayenne' before entering English usage in the 19th century. The endname for the people is Tsitsistas, meaning 'like-hearted people'.

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