Editing Comanche (section)

== Name ==
The Comanche's [[exonym and endonym|autonym]] is {{Lang|com|nʉmʉnʉʉ}}, meaning 'the human beings' or 'the people'.<ref name="auto"/> The earliest known use of the term "Comanche" dates to 1706, when the Comanche were reported by Spanish officials to be preparing to attack far-outlying [[Pueblo]] settlements in southern Colorado.<ref>''Governor Cuervo y Valdez Report,'' 18 Aug 1706</ref> The Spanish adopted the [[Ute people|Ute]] name for the people: {{lang|ute|kɨmantsi}} ('enemy'), spelling it ''Comanche'' (or ''Comanchi'', ''Cumanche'', ''Cumanchi'')<ref>{{cite book |last1=Barnes |first1=Thomas C. |last2=Naylor |first2=Thomas H. |last3=Polzer |first3=Charles W. |title=Northern New Spain: A Research Guide |publisher=University of Arizona |url=https://open.uapress.arizona.edu/read/northern-new-spain-a-research-guide/section/1f21260b-5632-4c85-a79f-dde8198f2c5c |access-date=10 May 2024}}</ref> in accord with the Spanish pronunciation.<ref>Ernest Wallace and E. Adamson Hoebel. 1952. ''The Comanches: Lords of the South Plains'' (University of Oklahoma Press).</ref> Before 1740, French explorers from the east sometimes used the name {{lang|fr|Padouca}} for the Comanche since it was already used for the [[Plains Apache]] and the French were not aware of the change of tribe in the region in the early 18th century.<ref>{{cite book |editor-last=Bright |editor-first=William |title=Native American Placenames of the United States |date=2004 |publisher=University of Oklahoma Press |location=Norman, OK |isbn=9780806135984 |page=364 }}</ref>