Athabascan
Meanings
adj
- Pertaining to a group of peoples mostly inhabiting Alaska, western Canada, the Pacific coast of California and Oregon, and the Navajo and Apache peoples in the American Southwest.
name
- The family of languages spoken by these peoples.
noun
- Any member of these peoples.
Word forms
Etymology
From Athabasca + -an, from Cree Ahđapaskâw (literally “where there are plants distributed in a net-like pattern”).
Derived words
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