Nitinahtn.

1848 Jrnl. Ethnol. Soc. 1 234 Naspatle;..Nittenat. All inhabit the western shores of Vancouver's Island.

1868 G. M. Sproat Scenes & Stud. Savage Life iii. 20 Quawteaht, a great personage in the mythology of these barbarians..is said to have given the first part of the names to the tribes; for instance, Toqu to the Toquahts,..Nitin to the Nitinahts,..and so on.

1953 E. Colson Makah Indians ii. 47 The waters of the Strait and ocean..are the pathways along which the war canoes of Quileutes, Clallams, Nitinats, Clayoquets, and Cowichans came to Makah villages.

1990 Handbk. N. Amer. Indians VII. 394/1 The Central Nootkans and the Nitinaht had contact, both friendly and hostile, with the Makah.

1911 E. Sapir in Amer. Anthropologist 13 15 The Wakashan linguistic stock is divided into two main branches, the Kwakiutl and the Nootka or Aht;..the latter [embraces] Northern Nootka..and Southern Nootka or Nitinat.

1934 Language 10 122 Nitinat has a very noticeable melody, but there is generally speaking only one melody which then is a concomitant of the sentence.

1976 T. A. Sebeok Native Lang. Americas I. 379 Haas has maintained an interest in Nootkan studies, returning recently to untangle the fused pronominal suffixes in Nootka and Nitinat..and to suggest the existence of stem extending suffixes.

1997 L. Campbell Amer. Indian Langs. 6/1 The result of this imposition of foreign names has been that languages became known by names that contain sounds absent from the languages themselves; for example, Nitinat and Makah (Nootkan languages) have no primary nasals, though the names by which they are known do.