USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Tejas is the Spanish spelling of a Caddo word taysha, which means “friend” or “ally". In the 17th century the Spanish knew the westernmost Caddo peoples as “the great kingdom of Tejas” and the name lived on to become the name of the 28th state of the United States-Texas.

Detailed explanation-2: -TEXAS.: The generally accepted version is that the name is an Indian word “tejas, ” meaning “friends” or “allies."

Detailed explanation-3: -The story goes that the word “Texas” itself comes from the Caddo word for “friends”. The Caddo were a confederacy of Native American tribes that dominated East Texas. The Spanish set up a mission in the region in the 17th century, led by friar Damián Massanet.

Detailed explanation-4: -Friendship was adopted as the Texas state motto in February 1930. The motto was most likely chosen because the name of Texas or Tejas was the Spanish pronunciation of the local Indian tribe’s word teyshas or thecas meaning friends or allies.

Detailed explanation-5: -Caddo, one tribe within a confederacy of North American Indian tribes comprising the Caddoan linguistic family. Their name derives from a French truncation of kadohadacho, meaning “real chief” in Caddo.