Haida

//ˈhaɪdə// name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A member of an indigenous people of the Northwest Coast of North America who live primarily in British Columbia and Alaska.

    "The first recorded European contact with the Haida was by the Spanish explorer Juan Perez in 1774 at Langara Island in the Queen Charlotte Islands. Soon the Haida were caught up in the lucrative fur trade, and the time they spent hunting sea otters and other marine mammals greatly increased."

  2. 2
    the Na-Dene language of the Haida wordnet
  3. 3
    a member of a seafaring group of North American Indians who lived on the Pacific coast of British Columbia and southwestern Alaska wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The indigenous language of this people.

    "The Haida language, called Skittagetan by Powell, was anciently spoken only on the Queen Charlotte islands off the coast of British Columbia."

Example

More examples

"If you like First Nations, maybe read the article "Semantic Motivations for Split Intransitivity in Haida.""

Etymology

From Southern Haida X̲aayda /ħaːjd̥a/; compare Northern Haida xaad /ħaːd̥/.

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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.