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Qw'ó:ntl'an

Qw'ó:ntl'an proper noun: synonym of Kwantlen.

Proper noun

Qw'ó:ntl'an sg or pl

  1. (plural, singular) Synonym of Kwantlen.
    • The Qw’ó:ntl’an (Kwantlen), which means noble or high born, was one of the ancient tribes of the Stó:lô claiming the site of New Westminster as its ancestral home. At the beginning of time the transformer is said to have turned the original people living here into wolves and sent them into the...2011, “Sapperton Landing Park”, in Parks & Recreation History of Park Sites and Facilities, page 97
    • High-status Qw’ó:ntl’an women are an example of those who trace their lineages from the woolly dog at a time when all beings were one family.2023 December 14, Audrey T. Lin, et al., “The History of Coast Salish ‘Woolly Dogs’ Revealed by Ancient Genomics and Indigenous Knowledge”, in Science, volume 382, number 6676, →DOI, pages 1303-1308
    Synonyms:
    Kwantlen

Synonyms of Qw'ó:ntl'an

Origin of Qw'ó:ntl'an

Unadapted borrowing from Halkomelem Qw'ó:ntl'an.

Questions about Qw'ó:ntl'an

What does Qw'ó:ntl'an mean?
Qw'ó:ntl'an means synonym of Kwantlen.
What part of speech is Qw'ó:ntl'an?
Qw'ó:ntl'an is a proper noun.

Words near Qw'ó:ntl'an in the dictionary

  1. QVL
  2. QVLs
  3. QVT
  4. QVTs
  5. Qw'ó:ltl'el
  6. Qw'ó:ntl'an
  7. Qwadza
  8. QWAN
  9. QwaQwa
  10. qway
  11. qwerty

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Qw'ó:ntl'an (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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