Achumawi

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The northerly nine (of eleven) bands of the Pit River tribe of Palaihnihan Native Americans who live in what is now northeastern California.
name
  1. The native language spoken by the Pit River people of present-day California.

Word forms

Achumawi Achomawi Ajumawi Ahjumawi

Etymology

An anglicization of the name of the Fall River band, ajúmmááwí, from ajúmmá “river”.

Related words

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