What is the usual and historical meaning of the word "Texas"?
Texas is usually and historically interpreted to mean friends. It is from the Caddo Indian word "teyshas" (meaning friends or allies). In the 1540s Spanish explorers took this to be a tribal name, recording it as Teyas or Tejas. It eventually came to mean an area north of the Rio Grande and east of New Mexico.
The state motto of Texas is "Friendship" which carries the original meaning of the word as it was used by Native Americans and Spanish inhabitants of the 16th and 17th centuries.
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Pat Wells
It should mean officials who pretend to, but really don't care about the people who live there. Cruz takes off for a vacation in Cancun during a state crisis. Wish he'd stay there. The Governor gives lip service and blames others--another great official.
kite005
Guess that meaning hasn't been literal in a while.
Rachel Weatherby
Easy peasy… born and raised in Texas. Have never lived anywhere else!
Jean Bernecky Hess
Why are so many of them cranky and miserable then?
patrhea
🎵"The 👀 of Texas are upon you...."
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chefrosner
hodoushere, I enjoyed San Antonio when I was there, too.
Helen Allard
I knew that one for sure being from Texas....
David Coe
Richard G Schwartz, Burt Texas's very own Canadian Cuban missed the sunshine, hombre!
James Clausen
Joseph A. Robitaille, usually and historically interpreted is not a fact.
James Clausen
Pat Wells, usually and historically interpreted is not a fact.
Richard G Schwartz
It's also where a representative if the state takes off for Cancun during a blizzard and people are left with no heat.
larrywagner
Had this question before and remembered it. Come on Tesla catch up.
Joseph A. Robitaille
A great question and answer.
Stephanie Fox
#nativeHoustonian
Richard D. Boyle
Stationed there twice in ‘50s and ‘60s.