Cheyenne

Borrowed from French Cheyenne, from Dakota šahíyena, from Dakota šaia (“to speak incoherently”), from Dakota ša (“red”) and Dakota ya (“to speak”). ^[1][2]

• IPA^(key): /ʃaɪˈæn/, /ʃaɪˈɛn/
• Rhymes: -ɛn

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Cheyenne (plural Cheyenne or Cheyennes)

1. A member of an indigenous people of the Great Plains in North America.

• Cheyenne County

Cheyenne

1. An Algonquian language spoken by the Cheyenne people.
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 town, the county seat of Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, United States.
5. A female or male given name of modern American usage.

• Cheyenne Wells

• Wiktionary's coverage of Cheyenne terms

• Ethnologue entry for Cheyenne, chy ⁠
• Cheyenne Dictionary
• Cheyenne Language Web Site
• Wikipedia Cheyenne language edition

Borrowed from Dakota šahíyena.

• IPA^(key): /ʃɛ.jɛn/ ~ /ʃe.jɛn/

Cheyenne m or f by sense (plural Cheyennes)

1. Cheyenne (member of the Cheyenne tribe)