English
Tuktoyaktuk
Tuktoyaktuk comes from Inuvialuktun Tuktuyaaqtuuq.
- InuvialuktunmodernTuktuyaaqtuuq
- Englishearliest quotation 1990Tuktoyaktuk
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- InuvialuktunmodernTuktuyaaqtuuq
- Englishearliest quotation 1990Tuktoyaktuk
Earliest quotation: 1990, John Bockstoce, Changing Images of the Northwest Passage: “The pack ice east of Tuktoyaktuk was so bad…”
The story
An anglicised form of the native Inuvialuit place-name, Inuvialuktun Tuktuyaaqtuuq, meaning "resembling a caribou".
Every English word from Inuvialuktun Tuktuyaaqtuuq
Today it means
name A hamlet in the Northwest Territories.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Inuvialuktun Tuktuyaaqtuuq / Tuktoyaktuk