Associations to the word «Chinookan»

Wiktionary

CHINOOKAN, adjective. Of or relating to a small language family spoken in Oregon and Washington along the Columbia River by Chinook peoples.

Dictionary definition

CHINOOKAN, noun. A Penutian language spoken by the Chinook.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne