Picuris

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English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish Picurís, possibly from Eastern Keres Pikuli[1][2]

Pronunciation

Noun

Picuris pl (plural only)

  1. A Northern Tiwa-speaking people and tribe located in northern New Mexico.

Proper noun

Picuris

  1. A historic Pueblo inhabited by the Picuris people located in Taos County, New Mexico.
  2. A variety of Northern Tiwa spoken by these people.
    Hypernyms: Tanoan, Tiwa
    Coordinate term: Taos
  3. The Picuris Mountains, a mountain range in northern New Mexico, considered to be a subrange of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains

See also

References

  1. ^ Michael A. Adler, Herbert W. Dick (1999) chapter I, in Picuris Pueblo through Time: Eight Centuries of Change in a Northern Rio Grande Pueblo, Dallas, T.X.: William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, →OCLC, page 1, →ISBN
  2. ^ Luistxo Fernandez (1998 November 1) “New Mexico Pueblos”, in GeoNative‎

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