Miwok
WordNet
noun
(1) A Penutian language spoken by the Miwok
(2) A member of the North American Indian people living in the central Sierra Nevada in California
WiktionaryText
Proper noun
- A linguistic group of indigenous people, native to central California.
- The Utian (Penutian) languages spoken by these groups.
Quotations
- 1925, Kroeber, Alfred, Handbook of Indians of California, Washington, D.C: Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin No. 78. (Chapter 30):
- "The Miwok pound acorns with pestles...."