Yellowknife

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

1. The capital of and only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada.

Translations

Capital of the Northwest Territories, Canada

Armenian: Ելոունայֆ (hy) (Elounayf) Bengali: হলুদচাকু (hôludcaku), ইয়েলোনাইফ (iyelonaiphô) Chinese: Mandarin: 耶洛奈夫 (Yēluònàifū), 黃刀鎮／黄刀镇 (Huángdāo zhèn) Esperanto: Yellowknife, (Esperantized) Jelonajfo French: Yellowknife (fr) German: Yellowknife (de) Greek: Γέλοουναϊφ n (Géloounaïf) Japanese: イエローナイフ (Ierōnaifu) Korean: 옐로나이프 (Yellonaipeu) Russian: Йе́ллоунайф (ru) m (Jéllounajf), Йеллоуна́йф (ru) m (Jellounájf)

Further reading

• Yellowknife on Wikipedia.Wikipedia