Cayuga
Americannoun
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a member of a tribe of North American Indians, the smallest tribe of the Iroquois Confederacy.
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the dialect of the Seneca language spoken by the Cayuga.
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Also called Cayuga duck. one of an American breed of domestic ducks having black plumage.
noun
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a member of a Native American people (one of the Iroquois peoples) formerly living around Cayuga Lake
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the language of this people, belonging to the Iroquoian family
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Etymology
Origin of Cayuga
1735–45, < Cayuga *kayo·kwę, name of a 17th-century village; compare Cayuga kayokwęhó˙nǫʔ Cayuga (people) (or < a related form in another N Iroquoian language)
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“It didn’t make sense because you use them once and throw them out,” said Hans Pfister, the president and co-founder of Cayuga Collection, the hotel group that manages the resort, which took housekeeping’s advice.
From New York Times ● Apr. 30, 2024
Cayuga – the only Federation vessel orbiting an unaffiliated colony when the Gorn attack it.
From Salon ● Aug. 11, 2023
Born Jaime Royal Robertson on the Six Nations Reserve outside of Toronto, Ontario, on July 5, 1943,the future musician was the son of Rosemarie Dolly Chrysler, who claimed Mohawk and Cayuga as her heritage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2023
He was met by Shyia Magan, director of live animals for the Cayuga Nature Center.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 20, 2023
May and the boys were upstate for the week at their house on Cayuga Lake, and he said he wasn’t in the mood to eat by himself.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
This latter alone was sufficient to condemn them for all market purposes, especially when subjected to the same discount on dark pins and feathers as the Cayugas.
From Natural and Artificial Duck Culture by Rankin, James
And on the morrow, too, must I needs deliver my belts to the Cayugas at their castle.
From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
Although an Iroquois, and possibly of the Cayuga tribe, yet he differed from our own Cayugas.
From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
The last belt was passed, flashing through the smoke; the chief sachem of the Cayugas rose to receive it, a tall, withered man of the Wolf tribe, painted and draped in scarlet.
From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
From another chestnut-sapling dangled the symbol of the Cayugas, a pipe.
From Cardigan by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
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