Etymograph

English

Kinbasket

Kinbasket comes from Shuswap Kenpesq’t ‘touching the highest part of the sky’.

  1. ShuswapmodernKenpesq’t‘touching the highest part of the sky’
  2. EnglishtodayKinbasket

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. ShuswapmodernKenpesq’t‘touching the highest part of the sky’
  2. EnglishtodayKinbasket

Today it means

name A lake on the Columbia River in southeast British Columbia in Canada.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Shuswap Kenpesq’t / Kinbasket