Associations to the word «Nootka»

Wiktionary

NOOTKA, noun. A member of the Nuu-chah-nulth people, an indigenous people from Vancouver Island, Canada
NOOTKA, proper noun. Nuu-chah-nulth language

Dictionary definition

NOOTKA, noun. A member of the Wakashan people living on Vancouver Island and in the Cape Flattery region of northwestern Washington.
NOOTKA, noun. A Wakashan language spoken by the Nootka.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats