Yellowknife
/ˈjɛloʊnaɪf/ name
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Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 The capital of and only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada.
Etymology
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.