Biloxi

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French bilocchy (recorded by Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville in 1699), itself a corruption of Biloxi Tanêks ąyaadi (literally “first people”). The shift of /t/ to /b/ and /n/ to /l/ occurred via Mobilian, however James Owen Dorsey has stated that this “agrees with the laws of Siouan consonant changes”.[1]

Noun

Biloxi (plural Biloxi or Biloxis)

  1. A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting an area near the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in southeast Mississippi.

Proper noun

Biloxi

  1. The extinct Siouan language once spoken by the Biloxi.
  2. A city in and one of the two county seats of Harrison County, Mississippi, United States.
  3. A village in southeastern Texas.

References

  1. ^ James Owen Dorsey, John Reed Swanton (1912), A Dictionary of the Biloxi and Ofo Languages, Accompanied with Thirty-One Biloxi Texts and Numerous Biloxi Phrases (Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin; 47)‎[1], Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 5

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