Wakashan
/waˈkaʃ(ə)n
/adjective
Relating to or denoting a small family of almost extinct American Indian languages of the northern Pacific coast, including Kwakiutl and Nootka.The Salishan and Wakashan languages are the favorite candidates for languages lacking the noun/verb contrast, but there have been several other proposals.
noun [mass noun]
The Wakashan family of languages.The ‘keepers of the language’ should be the language family - Algonquin, Athapaskan, Eskimo-Aleut, Haida, Iroquoian, Hutenai, Salishan, Siouan, Tlingit, Wakashan.
Origin
From Nootka waukash 'good' (said to have been applied to the people by Captain Cook) + -an.
- chocolate-cream soldier
- chocolate cup
- chocolate cyst
- chocolated
- chocolate drop
- chocolate egg
- chocolate factory
- chocolate finger
- chocolate fish
- chocolate fudge
- chocolate house
- chocolate kiss
- chocolate lily
- chocolate liqueur
- chocolate liquor
- chocolate milk
- chocolate mill
- chocolate mousse
- chocolate nut
- chocolate pot
- chocolate powder
- chocolate rabbit
- chocolate root
- chocolate salami
- chocolate soldier