Word.ws English Dictionary

Ligwildaxw

Ligwildaxw noun: anglicised spelling of Liǧʷiłdax̌ʷ.

Noun

Ligwildaxw sg or pl

  1. (plural, singular) Anglicised spelling of Liǧʷiłdax̌ʷ.
    • Dancers and speeches marked the occasion and Ligwildaxw Elder and Wei Wai Kum councillor Lorraine Henderson read a declaration to the Big House.2024 July 3, Alistair Taylor, “Indigenous protection and conservation area created in Loughborough Inlet”, in Campbell River Mirror, archived from the original on 17 Sep 2025, page 45
    • Sonny Assu is a Ligwildaxw Kwakwaka’wakw contemporary artist known for combining traditional visual elements of his Northwest Coast heritage with emblems of colonialism and Western consumer culture.2025, “Sonny Assu”, in Heritage House Publishing

Origin of Ligwildaxw

From Kwak'wala Lig̱wiłda'x̱w (U'mista spelling).

Questions about Ligwildaxw

What does Ligwildaxw mean?
Ligwildaxw means anglicised spelling of Liǧʷiłdax̌ʷ.
What part of speech is Ligwildaxw?
Ligwildaxw is a noun.

Words near Ligwildaxw in the dictionary

  1. ligustrin
  2. ligustroside
  3. ligustrum
  4. ligustrums
  5. Ligwilda'xw
  6. Ligwildaxw
  7. Lig̱wiłda'x̱w
  8. Lihou
  9. Lihous
  10. LIHTC
  11. Lihue

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Ligwildaxw (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Ligwildaxw.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/ligwildaxw. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.