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Crow
Etymology
baa- + ishtá- (“eye”) + shíili (“yellow”)
Noun
baashchíili
- white person
Derived terms
References
- Reed, Jr., George (1974 September) Dictionary of the Crow Language, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, pages 35, 67, 76
- Say, Thomas (1823) “Vocabularies of Indian languages”, in Edwin James, editor, Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819 and ’20, by Order of the Hon. J. C. Calhoun, Sec’y of War: Under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long. From the Notes of Major Long, Mr. T. Say, and Other Gentlemen of the Exploring Party, volume II, Philadelphia: H. C. Carey and I. Lea, pages lxix–lxxxviii: “White people, ma²sh-te¹-se¹-re¹—yellow eyes.”