haida
/ˈhaɪdə/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 2.45 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A member of an indigenous people of the Northwest Coast of North America who live primarily in British Columbia and Alaska.
name
The indigenous language of this people.
Example Sentences
- "The first recorded European contact with the Haida was by the Spanish explorer Juan Perez in 1774 at Langara Island in the Queen Charlotte Islands. Soon the Haida were caught up in the lucrative fur trade, and the time they spent hunting sea otters and other marine mammals greatly increased."
- "The Haida language, called Skittagetan by Powell, was anciently spoken only on the Queen Charlotte islands off the coast of British Columbia."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: X̲aayda
Inflected Forms
Phrases
Wiktionary’s coverage of Haida terms
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