Main Entry: Shaw·nee

Pronunciation: \shȯ-ˈnē, shä-\

Function: noun

Inflected Form(s): plural Shawnee or Shawnees

Etymology: back-formation from obsolete English Shawnese, ultimately from Shawnee ša·wano·ki, literally, southerners

Date: 1728

1 : a member of an American Indian people originally of the central Ohio valley
2 : the Algonquian language of the Shawnee people