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A pejorative term for a woman, wife; especially a Native American woman.
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squaw — squaw … Dictionnaire des rimes
Squaw — is the phonetic spelling of an eastern Algonquian Indian morpheme, meaning woman, that appears in numerous Algonquian dialects variously spelled as squa, skwa, esqua, sqeh, skwe, que, kwa, ikwe, etc. As an English language loan word, used as a… … Wikipedia
squaw — [ skwo ] n. f. • 1797; h. 1686; mot algonquin, transmis par l angl. amér. ♦ En Amérique du Nord, Épouse d un Indien. Vieilli Femme amérindienne. Des squaws. ● squaw nom féminin (anglais squaw, de l algonquin) Chez les Indiens de l Amérique du… … Encyclopédie Universelle
Squaw — 〈[ skwɔ:] f. 10〉 indian. Frau, Indianerin [Algonkin] * * * Squaw [skwɔ: ], die; , s [engl. squaw < Algonkin (nordamerik. Indianerspr.) squa = Frau]: 1. ↑ Frau (1) nordamerikanisch indianischer Abstammung: der Film erzählt die Lovestory… … Universal-Lexikon
Squaw — (skw[add]), n. [Massachusetts Indian squa, eshqua; Narragansett squ[^a]ws; Delaware ochqueu, and khqueu; used also in compound words (as the names of animals) in the sense of female.] A female; a woman, especially a married woman; a wife; in the… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
squaw — squaw; squaw·ber·ry; squaw·mish; … English syllables
Squaw — [skwɔ:] die; , s <aus engl. squaw, dies aus Algonkin (einer nordamerik. Indianersprache) squa »Weib«> nordamerik. Indianerfrau … Das große Fremdwörterbuch
Squaw — (spr. skwah), die Frau des nordamerik. Indianers … Kleines Konversations-Lexikon
Squaw — (skwah), indian. Weib … Herders Conversations-Lexikon
squaw — s.f.inv. ES ingl. {{wmetafile0}} fra gli Indiani d America, donna, moglie {{line}} {{/line}} DATA: 1923. ETIMO: da una voce algonchina … Dizionario italiano
Squaw — [skvɔː] die; , s; 1 eine Indianerin 2 die Ehefrau eines Indianers … Langenscheidt Großwörterbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache
