squaw

Squaw is an English language loan-word, used as a noun or adjective, derived from the eastern Algonquian morpheme meaning 'woman' that appears in numerous Algonquian languages and is variously transcribed in English as "squa", "skwa", "esqua", "sqeh", "skwe", "que", "kwa", "ikwe", "exkwew", "xkwe", and a number of other variants. Many indigenous North Americans consider the term to be offensive. Squaw is an English language loan-word, used as a noun or adjective, derived from the eastern Algonquian morpheme meaning 'woman' that appears in numerous Algonquian languages and is variously transcribed in English as "squa", "skwa", "esqua", "sqeh", "skwe", "que", "kwa", "ikwe", "exkwew", "xkwe", and a number of other variants. Many indigenous North Americans consider the term to be offensive.