Definitions for Wintun

Wintun Win·tun

Spelling: [win-toon, win-toon]
IPA: /wɪnˈtun, ˈwɪn tun/

Wintun is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in Wintun (inntuw).

Definitions for Wintun

noun

  1. Also called Copehan. a small family of North American Indian languages of Penutian stock spoken in northern California and including Wintu and Patwin.
  2. Wintu.

Examples for Wintun

In the south, where everything shows the Wintun and Pomo to have influenced each other considerably, he is replaced by Coyote.

It is clear that the mythology of the Maidu is distinctive and much less under Wintun influence than their ceremonies.

Derivation: From the Wintun word yuki, meaning stranger; secondarily, bad or thieving.

The Wintun occupy a territory which is of much greater extent from north to south than from east to west.

None of the groups so far discussed, with the possible exception of part of the Wintun, practiced any distinct mourning ceremony.

The Hesi, the most important of the Maidu series, is danced also by the Wintun.

The three Wintun villages have left no trace whatever in the mission records under Barrett's names or any recognizable variants.

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