English word origin

Etymology of Yurok

Borrowed from Karok [Term?] (“downriver [people]”), as they live on the Klamath River downstream of the Karuk, whose name means "upriver [people]".

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Unnumbered source etymology

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name

The Algic language of these people.

noun

A member of a particular Native American tribe of Northern California.

Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventory

Borrowed from Karok [Term?] (“downriver [people]”), as they live on the Klamath River downstream of the Karuk, whose name means "upriver [people]".

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