ᐅᐱᔥᑎᑴᔮᐤ opištikweyâw
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(noun, inanimate) (obsolete)
(capitalized Opištikweyâw) Quebec City, Quebec
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(noun, animate)
(capitalized Opištikweyâw, may refer to both men and women when used in the plural, but always to men in the singular) a person of French extraction
Etymology
Earlier wapištikweyâw, this word is attested since at least 1634 in the Jesuit Relations as the Cree appellation for Quebec City and likely came to refer first to its inhabitants and later to people of their ethnicity, the French.
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Some words starting with 'opištikweyâw'
Catholicism
s/he sings in French
s/he writes it in French
s/he writes in French
it is written in French
any land or territory occupied by French people or people of French extraction
s/he writes in French
s/he writes it in French
it is written in French
of or pertaining to French people
s/he has a French accent
s/he looks French
s/he has a French name
s/he gives it a French name
s/he gives h/ a French name
it has a French name