Tohono O’odham

[ thuh-noh uh-thuhm; English tuh-hah-nuh oh-uh-thuhm ]

noun

1. a member of an Indigenous people closely related to the Pima and now living mainly in southern Arizona and northwestern Mexico.
2. the Uto-Aztecan language of the Tohono O’odham, closely related to Pima.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Tohono O’odham¹

An Americanism dating back to 1985–90; from Pima-Papago tóhonoʔóʔdham “desert people”