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Waxahachie, Texas
Waxahachie is the county seat of Ellis County, Texas, United States, and lies just beyond the southern suburbs of Dallas. The population was 29,621 at the 2010 census.
==Etymology==
The first syllable of the name Waxahachie is pronounced "wahks" or "woks," not "waks" as is the case with the similarly named Waxahatchee Creek in Alabama and the music group Waxahatchee. It is not the name of an "Indian tribe" as is sometimes assumed. Some sources state that the name means "cow" or "buffalo" in an unspecified Native American language.〔 One possible Native American origin is the Alabama language, originally spoken in the area of Alabama around Waxahatchee Creek by the Alabama-Coushatta people, who had migrated by the 1850s to eastern Texas. In the Alabama language, ''waakasi hachi'' means "calf's tail" (the Alabama word waaka being a loan from Spanish ''vaca'').〔(On-line Alabama-English Dictionary )〕
That there is a Waxahatchee Creek near present day Shelby, AL suggest that Waxahachie, TX shares the same name etymology. Many place names in TX and OK have their origins in the Southeast U.S. largely due to migration and/or forced removal of various southeastern Indian tribes. The area in central Alabama that includes Waxahatchee Creek was for hundreds of years the home of the Upper Creek moiety of the Muscogee Creek Nation. Again, this would suggest a Muscogee Creek language origin of Waxahachie. Waxahachie therefore may be an anglicized pronunciation of the Muscogee compound word "Wakvhvce" from the Muscogee words "Wakv" (meaning "cow" derived from the Spanish "vaca") and the Muscogee word "Hvce" (meaning "tail"). Nota bene: Many place names in the Southern U.S. end with "hatchee" or "hachie" such as, famously, "Tallahatchie Bridge". Whether "hatchee" or "hachie" these names oftentimes derive from either the Muscogee word "hvce" (tail) or "hvcce" (a river or a stream). For example, 'Tvlvhvcce (English "Tallahatchie") may be interpreted as River City from 'Tvlv (city or town) and "hvcce" (river or stream).
A second etymology that has been suggested for the name is insisted on by speakers of Wichita, the language of the tribe which used to live in the area but now lives mostly around Anadarko, Oklahoma. Wichitas claim the name comes from their word ''waks'ahe:ts'i'' (the apostrophe represents a glottal stop, like the middle sound in "oh oh"; "a" is schwa ("uh"); "e:" sounds almost like the "a" of "hat"; "ts" before "i" in this language often sounds like "ch" to English speaking ears; "i" has the continental value, like the one in English "machine"). It means "fat wildcat."〔Dr. David S. Rood, linguist at the University of Colorado, who has been studying the Wichita language since 1965.〕
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