motto of texas and its meaning
Language: English. The state motto of Texas is  Friendship .. The word, Texas, or Tejas, was the Spanish pronunciation of a Caddo Indian word meaning friends or allies.. House Concurrent Resolution No. 22, 41st Legislature, 4th Called Session (1930) p. 105. Texas is from the Caddo Indian word teyshas (meaning friends or allies).
STATE MOTTO. The word Friendship was adopted as the Texas state motto by the Forty-first Texas Legislature in February 1930. The word was probably chosen because the name Texas or Tejas was the Spanish pronunciation of a Caddo Indian word sometimes translated to mean friends or allies.. See also TEXAS, ORIGIN OF NAME.