Chickasaw

Chickasaw Definition

Chicka·saw (c̸hik′ə sô′, -sä′)

noun

pl. Chickasaws -·saws′ or Chickasaw -·saw′ a member of a North American Indian people that formerly lived in N Mississippi and Alabama and now lives in Oklahoma
the Muskogean language of this people, closely related to Choctaw

Etymology: < Chickasaw chikashsha, a self-designation, or a Muskogean cognate of this

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