Caddo ethnic terms

[Wallace Chafe]

On this one point, nope, it only means Frenchman. But that's only in modern
times. There has to have once been a period when it meant something more
general, I should think, in order to explain the switch, if that's indeed
what happened.

> It occurs to me to wonder if the Caddo form means anything besides
> 'Frenchman'.  Any chance it means 'people who don't have a specific name'?