native people of the U.S. southern Plains, 1810, earlier in Spanish records as Caigua, from a word in the people's language (Kiowa-Tanoan). Bright offers no etymology for it.
kinky
kino-
kinship
kinsman
kiosk
Kiowa
Kiplingesque
kipper
kir
Kiribati
kirk
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