Etymograph

English

Kwakwaka'wakw

Kwakwaka'wakw comes from Kwak'wala Kwakwa̱ka̱'wakw.

  1. Kwak'walamodernKwakwa̱ka̱'wakw
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2018Kwakwaka'wakw

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Kwak'walamodernKwakwa̱ka̱'wakw
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2018Kwakwaka'wakw

Earliest quotation: 2018, Nellie Bowles, Jordan Peterson, Custodian of the Patriarchy: “Before he leads me to his office to sit…”

Today it means

noun A member of an indigenous people of the Pacific Northwest Coast.

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

Etymograph / Kwak'wala Kwakwa̱ka̱'wakw / Kwakwaka'wakw