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Maidu

Maidu noun: a member of an indigenous people of northern California, residing in the central Sierra Nevada.

Noun

Maidu (plural Maidus or Maidu)

  1. A member of an indigenous people of northern California, residing in the central Sierra Nevada.

Proper noun

Maidu

  1. An extinct Maiduan language.

Forms of Maidu

pluralMaidus
pluralMaidu

Origin of Maidu

Borrowing from Northeast Maidu maidüm (“man”).

Words formed from Maidu

Questions about Maidu

What does Maidu mean?
Maidu means a member of an indigenous people of northern California, residing in the central Sierra Nevada.
What part of speech is Maidu?
Maidu can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of Maidu?
The plural of Maidu is Maidus.

Words near Maidu in the dictionary

  1. maidservant
  2. maidservants
  3. Maidstone
  4. Maidstonian
  5. Maidstonians
  6. Maidu
  7. Maiduan
  8. Maiduans
  9. Maiduguri
  10. Maidun
  11. Maidus

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Maidu (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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