Etymograph

English

Tlingit

Tlingit comes from Tlingit Lingít.

  1. TlingitmodernLingít
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1963Tlingit

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. TlingitmodernLingít
  2. Englishearliest quotation 1963Tlingit

Earliest quotation: 1963, Constance Naish, ‘The Lord is My Goat Hunter’: “Today (about fifty years later) it is not likely…”

Today it means

noun A member of an Indian people from the coastal regions of Alaska and British Columbia.

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

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