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Yellowknife

yel·lowk·nife

UK/ˈjɛloʊnaɪf/ US/ˈjɛloʊˌnaɪf/ uncommon

noun

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a town in the Northwest Territories in northern Canada on the Great Slave Lake

Origin

From 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.

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