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shaw·nee \(ˈ)shȯ|nē, (ˈ)shä|-\ noun also shaw·a·nee \|shȯ(w)ə|nē\; or shaw·a·no \-nō\ (plural shawnee or shawnees) Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: Shawnee, Shawanee back-formation from obsolete English Shawnese, Shawanese Shawnee, Shawnees, from Shawnee Shaawanwaaki, plural, literally, those in the south (from shaawanawa south) + English -ese: Shawano modification of Shawnee Shaawanwaaki 1. a. : an Indian people of the Cumberland river valley, Tenn., but ranging through most of the states east of the Mississippi and south of the Great Lakes b. : a member of such people 2. : an Algonquian language of the Shawnee people |