Haidas

Variant of Haida

Haida definition

Haida (hī′dä′, -də)

noun

  1. pl. Haidas -·das′ or Haida -·da′ a member of a North American Indian people living mainly on islands of British Columbia and Alaska
  2. the language of this people, of uncertain relationship but thought by some scholars to be distantly related to Tlingit and the Athabaskan languages

Etymology: a self-designation, lit., people

adjective

of the Haidas or their language or culture

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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