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Picuris
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English
+ Pueblo
Etymology
Borrowed from en es Picurís, possibly from en kee Pikulien Michael A. Adler Herbert W. Dick I Picuris Pueblo through Time: Eight Centuries of Change in a Northern Rio Grande Pueblo Dallas, T.X. William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University, Dallas 1999 43663340 978-1-929-53100-4 1 https://www.smu.edu/-/media/site/dedman/academics/institutescenters/swcenter/clementscenter/home-page/picuris-pueblo-through-time.pdfen Luistxo Fernandez New Mexico Pueblos https://www.oocities.org/geonative/pueblo.html 25 January 2025 GeoNative 1 November 1998 https://web.archive.org/web/20250125113725/https://www.oocities.org/geonative/pueblo.html
Pronunciation
en /pɪ.kəˈɹis/ /pɪ.kɚˈis/ GA
en /pɪ.kəˈɹiːs/ RP
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Picuris.wav Southern England
en iːs 3
en Pi cu ris Pi cur is
Noun
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A Northern Tiwa language Northern Tiwa-speaking people and tribe located in northern New Mexico.
Proper noun
A historic Pueblo inhabited by the Picuris people located in Taos County, New Mexico.
A variety of Northern Tiwa spoken by these people.
en Tanoan Tiwa
en Taos
The Picuris Mountains, a mountain range in northern New Mexico, considered to be a subrange of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains
See also
federally recognized Pueblo tribes in New Mexico: en Acoma, en Cochiti, en Isleta, en Jemez, en Laguna, en Nambé, en Ohkay Owingeh (en San Juan), en Picuris, en Pojoaque, en Sandia, en San Felipe, en San Ildefonso, en Santa Ana, en Santa Clara, en Santo Domingo (en Kewa), en Taos, en Tesuque, en Zia, en Zuni
en Pueblo
en Puebloan
References
Further reading
Picuris Mountains
Picuris language
en Dialects Mountains Native American tribes New Mexico, USA North America