Associations to the word «Cayuga»

Wiktionary

CAYUGA, noun. One of an indigenous people of North America, part of the Iroquois Confederacy.
CAYUGA, proper noun. Their Northern Iroquoian language.

Dictionary definition

CAYUGA, noun. A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living around Cayuga Lake in New York State.
CAYUGA, noun. The Iroquoian language spoken by the Cayuga.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne