n.
Pronunciation: sho ̇ - ' n ē , shä-
Function: noun
Inflected Form: plural Shawnee or Shawnees
Etymology: back-formation from obsolete English Shawnese, ultimately from Shawnee š a · wano · ki, literally, southerners
Date: 1728
1 : a member of an American Indian people orig. of the central Ohio valley
2 : the Algonquian language of the Shawnee people