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iqyax

iqyax noun: a bidarka.

Noun

iqyax

  1. A bidarka.
    • Each pain was a wave, and she tried to float above it, as though she were back in that small iqyax with Sok, riding the North Sea when she came as his bride to the River People.2000, Sue Harrison, Cry of the Wind, page 51
    • An especially genuine example is in the hands of a young Aleut man named Chris Lokanin, who aims to carry on his ancestral iqyax-building […]2004, The Woodenboat, page 17

Origin of iqyax

From Unangan Aleut iqyax̂ (“kayak”).

Questions about iqyax

What does iqyax mean?
Iqyax means a bidarka.
What part of speech is iqyax?
Iqyax is a noun.

Words near iqyax in the dictionary

  1. iqtas
  2. iquindamine
  3. iquiqueite
  4. Iquito
  5. Iquitos
  6. iqyax
  7. IR
  8. IR drop
  9. ir-
  10. Ir.
  11. Ira

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