Taos

See also: taos and t-aos

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Taos tə̂o (“village”), as in tə̂otho (“in the village”) or tə̂obo (“to the village”), via (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish Taos (“Taos”).

Proper noun

Taos

1. An indigenous, Tiwa-speaking people of New Mexico who inhabit a pueblo there.
2. The pueblo they inhabit, which, being about thousand years old, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited sites in the United States.
3. The Kiowa-Tanoan lect they speak, which is either closely related to or a dialect of northern Tiwa.
4. The town of Taos, south of Taos Pueblo, in New Mexico, which is the county seat of Taos County.
5. A city and town in Missouri.

Derived terms

• Taos County

Translations

ethnic group

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 叩頭／叩头 (zh) (kòutóu), 陶斯 (Táosī)

• Navajo: Tówołnii
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Swahili: Wataosi
• Taos: t’óynemą, ìałophàymųp’ȍhəothəlt’óynemą

pueblo

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 叩頭／叩头 (zh) (kòutóu), 陶斯 (Táosī)

• Navajo: Tówoł
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Spanish: Taos, San Gerónimo de los Taos, San Miguel, Brada (1541), Valladolid (1541), Tayberon (1598), Tayberin (1598)
• Taos: ȉałopháybo, ȉałopháymųp’ȍhə́othə̀olbo, tə̂obo, tə̂otho,

town

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 叩頭／叩头 (zh) (kòutóu), 陶斯 (Táosī)

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Taos: kwę́’ogą, plòso’óna

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Translations to be checked

• Russian: ^{(please verify)} та́ос (ru) m (táos)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Taos terms

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for Taos, twf ⁠

Anagrams

• OTAs, SOTA, Sato, Sota, Tsao, as to, oast, oats, stoa, toas, tosa