kalapuya
IPA: kæɫʌpjujʌ
Root Word: Kalapuya
noun
- A Native American ethnic group traditionally living in the Willamette Valley of present-day western Oregon in the United States.
- Alternative form of Kalapuyan (“language family”) [A member of the Kalapuya people.]
Examples of "kalapuya" in Sentences
- Kalapuya opened in the fall of 2003.
- They spoke a dialect of the Central Kalapuya language.
- The original Kalapuya pronunciation of the word is Chim i ki ti.
- budapest open access initiative, linguistics, morphology, northwest journal of linguistics, santiam kalapuya