Yellowknife

English

Etymology

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.

Proper noun

Yellowknife

  1. The capital of and only city in the Northwest Territories, Canada.

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