Taos

See also: taos and t-aos

English

Etymology

From Taos tə̂o (“village”), as in tə̂otho (“in the village”) or tə̂obo (“to the village”), via Spanish Taos (“Taos”).

Noun

Taos pl (plural only)

  1. An indigenous, Tiwa-speaking people of New Mexico who inhabit a pueblo there.

Translations

Proper noun

Taos

  1. The pueblo which they inhabit, which, being about one thousand years old, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited sites in the United States.
  2. The Kiowa-Tanoan lect they speak, which is either closely related to or a dialect of northern Tiwa.
  3. A town, the county seat of Taos County, New Mexico, south of Taos Pueblo.
  4. A city and town in Missouri.

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See also
  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Taos terms

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