Chipewyan
Chippewaian
orChippewyan
\ˌchipəˈwīən\Definition of Chipewyan
Chipewyan
orChipewyans
orChippewaian
orChippewaians
orChippewyan
orChippewyans
1a : an Athapaskan people closely related to the Slave and Yellowknife people and living north of the Churchill river between the Great Slave lake and the Slave and Athabaska rivers on the west and Hudson Bay on the east b : a member of such people
2 : the language of the Chipewyan people
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Origin and Etymology of chipewyan
Cree Chipwayanawok, literally, pointed skins, from chipwa pointed + weyanaw skin + -ok (suffix denoting plural); from their pointed skin shirts or parkas
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