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Tohono O’odham
[ thuh-noh uh-thuhm; English tuh-hah-nuh oh-uh-thuhm ]
noun
- a member of an Indigenous people closely related to the Pima and now living mainly in southern Arizona and northwestern Mexico.
- 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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