Paw|nee

Paw|nee
pawn|ee «p NEE», noun.
the person with whom something is deposited as a pawn or security.
Paw|nee «p NEE», noun, plural -nee or -nees, adjective.
–n.
1. a member of an American Indian tribe that lived near the forks of the Platte River in Nebraska and Kansas and belonged to the confederacy of Caddoan linguistic stock. The Pawnee now live mainly in Oklahoma.
2. their language.
–adj.
of or having to do with this tribe or confederacy.
[American English < Caddoan (Pawnee) parīsu' hunters]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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