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Sahai'a

Sahai'a is the alternative form of Sahaiʔa.

Meaning of Sahaiʔa

Proper noun

Sahaiʔa

  1. A female given name from Chipewyan. Alternative form of Sahą́ı̨́ʔą.
    • One of the big challenges, it turns out, is the government itself. Last week, Shene Catholique-Valpy, an Aboriginal woman born and raised in the Northwest Territories, spoke out publicly about her year-long fight to have the the^([sic]) traditional Chipewyan spelling of her daughter’s name, Sahaiʔa...2015 March 12, Rachel Browne, “What’s in a name? A Chipewyan’s battle over her native tongue”, in Maclean's, archived from the original on 13 Mar 2015

Questions about Sahai'a

What is Sahai'a the alternative form of?
Sahai'a is the alternative form of Sahaiʔa.

Words near Sahai'a in the dictionary

  1. Sahagian
  2. Sahagians
  3. Sahagun
  4. Sahaguns
  5. Sahaguntine
  6. Sahai'a
  7. Sahaiʔa
  8. Sahaj
  9. Sahaja
  10. sahajdari
  11. sahajdaris

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Sahai'a (page history and authors); Sahaiʔa (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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