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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun An American Indian language family of New Mexico, northeast Arizona, and the southern Great Plains.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Kiowa + Spanish Tano, name for the Southern Tewas of New Mexico (from Tewa) + –an.]

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