Dakota

Alternative forms

• Dahcotah, Dacotah, Dacota

Etymology

From Dakota dakhóta (“ally”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dəˈkəʊtə/
• Rhymes: -əʊtə

Proper noun

Dakota

1. The Santee branch of the Sioux people.
2. The language of these people.
3. Either of the two states North Dakota or South Dakota.
4. A unisex given name.
   • 2002 Danny Katz, Dork Geek Jew, Allen & Unwin (2002), →ISBN, page 12:

     'Montana?' I said. 'You can't call a kid Montana'―these friends of mine were going to call their new baby girl Montana and I tried to talk them out of it, because I'm sick of Australians naming their kids after American placenames, I'm sick of all these Montanas and Delawares and Indianas and Dallases. You'd never hear it the other way around; you're not going to hear about an American kid called Warrnambool or Kooweerup― [- - -] and they said,'Okay okay, we won't call her Montana.' So they called her Dakota.

Noun

Dakota (plural Dakotas)

1. A member of the Dakota people.

See also

• Category:Dakota language

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for Dakota, dak

Proper noun

Dakota

1. either of the two states North Dakota or South Dakota

Anagrams

• dokata, kaadot, kadota

Noun

Dakota m

1. Dakota, a member of the Dakota people

Noun

Dakota pl

1. North Dakota and South Dakota
   • beide Dakota ― North and South Dakota

Romanization

Dakota

1. Rōmaji transcription of ダコタ