squaw

Significado (Inglês)

A woman, wife; especially a Native American woman.

Sinônimos

spouse

wife

👰‍♀️

female

femme

girl

👧

lady

madam

missus

mistress

Mrs

old woman

signora

woman

👩

Mrs.

Frau

Miss

Ms

Ms.

wifey

bride

little woman

effeminate

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/skwɔː/

Etimologia (Inglês)

Cognato com Western Abnaki: -skwa

Cognato com Mohegan-Pequot: sqá

Cognato com cree: iskwew

Cognato com ojibwa: ikwe

In summary

From Massachusett squàw (“woman”), from Proto-Algonquian *eθkwe·wa (“(young) woman”). Cognate with Abenaki -skwa (“female, wife”), Mohegan-Pequot sqá, Cree iskwew / ᐃᐢᑫᐧᐤ (iskeyw, “woman”), Ojibwe ikwe (“woman”). In the 1970s, some non-linguists began to claim that the word originally meant "vagina"; this has been discredited.
The first recorded version of the word was found in a book called Mourt’s Relation: A Journey of the Pilgrims at Plymouth written in 1622. The term was not used in a derogatory fashion but spoke of the “squa sachim or Massachusets Queen” in the September 20, 1621 journal entry.