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Hocąk
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Winnebago
Etymology
The second part of the name, -cąk, means "big, important, original". The meaning of the first part is not universally agreed upon, and the full name is variously translated as "people of the big voice" or "people of the big fish". The people's English exonym, Winnebago, derives from an alg word meaning "people of the dirty water", a reference to Lake Winnebago.John E. Koontz, Winnebago, in The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia, page 317
Proper noun
win proper noun
the Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) tribe
Descendants
en Ho-Chunk
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