Taos
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Taos tə̂o (“village”), as in tə̂otho (“in the village”) or tə̂obo (“to the village”), via Spanish Taos (“Taos”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Taos pl (plural only)
- An indigenous, Tiwa-speaking people of New Mexico who inhabit a pueblo there.
Translations
[edit]ethnic group
Proper noun
[edit]Taos
- The pueblo which they inhabit, which, being about one thousand years old, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited sites in the United States.
- The Kiowa-Tanoan lect they speak, which is either closely related to or a dialect of northern Tiwa.
- A town, the county seat of Taos County, New Mexico, south of Taos Pueblo.
- A city and town in Missouri.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]pueblo
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See also
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Ethnologue entry for Taos, twf
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- English terms derived from Taos
- English terms derived from Spanish
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English pluralia tantum
- English proper nouns
- English uncountable nouns
- en:Towns in New Mexico, USA
- en:Towns in the United States
- en:County seats of New Mexico, USA
- en:Places in New Mexico, USA
- en:Places in the United States
- en:Cities in Missouri, USA
- en:Cities in the United States
- en:Towns in Missouri, USA
- en:Places in Missouri, USA
- en:Languages