Yellowknife
English
Etymology
yellow (“a colour like that of copper”) + knife (“a tool prominently made, used, owned, and traded, by the T'satsąot'ınę”).From Dogrib T'satsąot'ınę.Named after the Tsatsaotine (“Copper People”) (the Yellowknives), a local Dene tribe that made copper tools.
Proper noun
Yellowknife
- The capital of and only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada.
Translations
Capital of the Northwest Territories, Canada
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Further reading
Yellowknife on Wikipedia.Wikipedia