ᐗᐱᔥᑎᑴᔮᐤ wapištikweyâw
(obsolete)
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(noun, inanimate) (obsolete)
(capitalized Wapištikweyâw) Quebec City, Quebec
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(noun, animate)
(capitalized Wapištikweyâw, 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
Attested since at least 1634 in the Jesuit Relations as the Cree appellation for Quebec City, this word likely came to refer first to its inhabitants and later to people of their ethnicity, the French.
References
seeopištikweyâw