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Tohono O’odham

[ thuh-noh uh-thuhm; English tuh-hah-nuh oh-uh-thuhm ]

noun

  1. a member of an Indigenous people closely related to the Pima and now living mainly in southern Arizona and northwestern Mexico.
  2. the Uto-Aztecan language of the Tohono O’odham, closely related to Pima.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of Tohono O’odham1

An Americanism dating back to 1985–90; from Pima-Papago tóhonoʔóʔdham “desert people”

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