English Explanatory Dictionary

Tolowa

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of a particular tribe whose members still reside in their traditional territories in northwestern California and southern Oregon.
name
  1. The Athabaskan language of this tribe.

Word forms

Tolowa Tolowas

Etymology

From a Yurok term: either from tolowechek' (“I speak Tolowa”), or from the Yurok name of their principal town.

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