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”).

Proper noun

Taos

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

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See also
  • Wiktionary’s coverage of Taos terms

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