SHAWNEE

I. noun (plural ~ or ~s) Etymology: back-formation from obsolete English Shawnese, ultimately from ~ šawanoki, literally, southerners Date: 1728 a member of an American Indian people originally of the central Ohio valley, the Algonquian language of the ~ people, II. geographical name city NE Kansas S of Kansas City population 47,996, city central Oklahoma population 28,692