Taos

Meaning

Proper Noun

• An indigenous, Tiwa-speaking people of New Mexico who inhabit a pueblo there.
• The pueblo they inhabit, which, being about thousand years old, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited sites in the United States.
• The Kiowa-Tanoan lect they speak, which is either closely related to or a dialect of northern Tiwa.
• town, county seat Taos County (county) New Mexico (state), south of Taos Pueblo.
• city/and/town Missouri (state).

Origin

• From Taos tə̂o, as in tə̂otho or tə̂obo, via Spanish Taos.