NOUN
- a member of the Wakashan people living on Vancouver Island and in the Cape Flattery region of northwestern Washington
- a Wakashan language spoken by the Nootka
How To Use Nootka In A Sentence
- Mexico. 11 The language of Nootka is by no means harsh or disagreeable; for it abounds, upon the whole, rather with what may be called labial and dental, than with guttural sounds. Narrative of the Voyages Round The World, Performed by Captain James Cook
- Chinook Jargon:a pidgin language combining words from Nootka, Chinook, Salishan languages, French, and English, formerly used as a lingua franca in the Pacific Northwest.
- As it happened a fisherman out of Friendly Cove was just clearing Yuquot Point heading south-west out of Nootka Sound. HIGH STAND
- On the way downhill they picked a giant bouquet of paintbrush and brodiaea and a few late blossoms of Nootka rose. FOLLY
- The principal forest-trees are hemlock, spruce, and Nootka cypress, with a few pines (P. contorta) on the margin of the meadow, some of them nearly a hundred feet high, draped with gray usnea, the bark also gray with scale lichens. Travels in Alaska
- Luna appeared in Nootka Sound just days after Maquinna's father expressed a deathbed wish for his spirit to return to inhabit a killer whale.
- Hence, while Nootka recognizes a cleavage between concrete and less concrete within group II, the less concrete do not transcend the group and lead us into that abstracter air into which our plural - s carries us. Chapter 5. Form in Language: Grammatical Concepts
- Such a Nootka word, for instance, as when, as they say, he had been absent for four days might be expected to embody at least three radical elements corresponding to the concepts of absent, four, and day. Chapter 4. Form in Language: Grammatical Processes
- Chinook Jargon:a pidgin language combining words from Nootka, Chinook, Salishan languages, French, and English, formerly used as a lingua franca in the Pacific Northwest.
- In the potlatches of the Chinook, Nootka, and other Pacific Northwest peoples, for example, chiefs vied to give the most blankets and other valuables.