Winona

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From a Dakota winúŋna(“firstborn daughter”). [1] [2] [3] While not originally used as a personal name by the Dakota, it has been adopted as such by English speakers. [1]

John Koontz suggested that the name was a compound of wi-(“female”) + no(“first”) + -na (a diminutive suffix) and thus a reflex of Proto-Siouan *rǫ/ *nǫ(“one”). That root is otherwise unattested in the Sioux languages, which use reflexes of *wį(y)ą(“one”) instead, [4] and a more prosaic analysis identifies the first elements of the name with winyan(“woman”).