Wintun

[ win-toon, win-toon ]

noun

1. Also called Copehan. a small family of North American Indian languages of Penutian stock spoken in northern California and including Wintu and Patwin.
2. Wintu.

Example Sentences

Derivation: From the Wintun word yuki, meaning stranger; secondarily, bad or thieving.

From Project Gutenberg

It is clear that the mythology of the Maidu is distinctive and much less under Wintun influence than their ceremonies.

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The Wintun occupy a territory which is of much greater extent from north to south than from east to west.

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In the south, where everything shows the Wintun and Pomo to have influenced each other considerably, he is replaced by Coyote.

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None of the groups so far discussed, with the possible exception of part of the Wintun, practiced any distinct mourning ceremony.

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