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Owikeno

Owikeno is the alternative form of Wuikinuxv.

Meaning of Wuikinuxv

Proper noun

Wuikinuxv pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) An Indigenous First Nations people of the Central Coast region of the Canadian province of British Columbia, located around Rivers Inlet and Owikeno Lake, to the north of Queen Charlotte Strait.
    • Henson said her team worked closely with the Nuxalk, Haíɫzaqv, Kitasoo/Xai'xais, Gitga'at and Wuikinuxv First Nations to sample and analyze the DNA.2021 August 22, Winston Szeto, “Grizzly territories in B.C. line up with Indigenous language communities, new study suggests”, in CBC News, archived from the original on 26 Aug 2021

Questions about Owikeno

What is Owikeno the alternative form of?
Owikeno is the alternative form of Wuikinuxv.

Words near Owikeno in the dictionary

  1. OWF
  2. OWFs
  3. OWI
  4. owie
  5. owies
  6. Owikeno
  7. OWIN
  8. owing
  9. owing it to oneself
  10. owing out
  11. owing to

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Owikeno (page history and authors); Wuikinuxv (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.

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