athapaskan

Meaning of athapaskan

adjective
  1. denoting or relating to a family of North American languages including especially Navajo and various Apache languages of the south-west US, several languages of coastal California and Oregon, and many languages of Alaska and north-western Canada, including Chipewyan.
  2. denoting or relating to speakers of any of the Athabaskan languages.
noun
  1. the Athabaskan family of languages, sometimes classified in the Na-Dene phylum.
  2. a speaker of any of the Athabaskan languages.

from Athabasca, the name of a lake in western Canada, from Cree Athap-askaw ‘grass and reeds here and there’, + -an.

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Hyphenation of athapaskan

atha-paskan

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
  • athapaskan is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

athapaskan synonyms

Meaning Athapaskan:

Athapaskan, Athapascan, Athabaskan, Athabascan

Words that rhyme with athapaskan

Alaskan, Athabaskan, Athapaskan, Nebraskan, alaskan, athabaskan, nebraskan, Weskan, Wishoskan, Cambyuskan, molluskan

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