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Nootka
[ noot-kuh, noot- ]
Nootka
/ ˈnuːt-; ˈnʊtkə /
noun
- -ka-kas a member of a North American Indian people living in British Columbia and Vancouver Island
- the language of this people, belonging to the Wakashan family
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Nootka1
First recorded in 1780–90; possibly from Nootka nu⋅tka⋅ “to circle around,” mistaken by Captain James Cook to be the name of the people or of Nootka Sound
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Example Sentences
What immeasurable interval between it and the prayer of the Nootka Indian on preparing for war!
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There she anchored before a large Nootka Indian village, called Newity.
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These houses are sometimes 40 by 100 feet in the Nootka and Salish regions, and are occupied by a number of families.
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In Nootka we have an unusually large number of derivational affixes (expressing concepts of group II).
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But is the Nootka correlate of “the small fires in the house” the true equivalent of an English “the house-firelets”?
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