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Iswa

Iswa noun: a Native American people who inhabit the Carolinas: the Catawba.

iswa: a Native American people who inhabit the Carolinas: the Catawba
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Noun

Iswa pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A Native American people who inhabit the Carolinas: the Catawba.
    Synonyms:
    Catawba, Issa, Esaw

Synonyms of Iswa

Origin of Iswa

From the tribe's autonym, ye iswa (“people of the river”), from Catawba ye (“people”) + iswa (“river”).

Questions about Iswa

What does Iswa mean?
Iswa means a Native American people who inhabit the Carolinas: the Catawba.
What part of speech is Iswa?
Iswa is a noun.

Words near Iswa in the dictionary

  1. ISV
  2. Isvara
  3. Isverna
  4. ISVs
  5. ISW
  6. Iswa
  7. ISWAP
  8. Iswara
  9. iswas
  10. ISWG
  11. Iswuhti

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Iswa (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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