English Explanatory Dictionary

Yurok

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of a particular Native American tribe of Northern California.
name
  1. The Algic language of these people.

Word forms

Yurok Yuroks

Etymology

Borrowed from Karok [Term?] (“downriver [people]”), as they live on the Klamath River downstream of the Karuk, whose name means "upriver [people]".

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