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Zuni

[ zoo-nee ]

noun

plural Zunis, (especially collectively) Zuni
  1. a member of a group of North American Indians inhabiting the largest of the Indian pueblos, in western New Mexico.
  2. the language of the Zuni.


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/ ˈsuː-; ˈzuːnjiː /

noun

  1. -ñ-ñ a member of a North American Indian people of W New Mexico
  2. the language of this people, a member of the Penutian phylum of languages
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˈܳñan, adjectivenoun
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • ܳn· ܳñi· adjective noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Zuni1

An Americanism first recorded in 1830–35; earlier ܳñ, from Spanish (southwestern United States), from Acoma Keresan ɨ̂·Ծ (pronounced θɨ̂·Բ⾱ ) or a cognate
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Example Sentences

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While giving back local control was Trump’s stated rationale, tribes in the area, like the Diné, Ute, Hopi, and Zuni, had been working for years to protect the two iconic and culturally significant sites.

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There’s the one in Gallup, N.M., perpetually packed with buses from the nearby Navajo and Zuni nations.

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He joined a team digging for dinosaur fossils in the Zuni Basin in New Mexico.

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Zuni farmers in the southwestern United States made it through long stretches of extremely low rainfall between A.D.

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But he encourages them to consider that, after millennia spent living in the same environment, Zuni have an organic understanding of complex ecosystems that scientists might still be catching up on.

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