Koyukon

[ koi-yoo-kon, kah- ]

noun

1. a member of a North American Indian people living in the Yukon River valley in west-central Alaska.
2. the Athabascan language of the Koyukon.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Koyukon¹

Respelling, after the Koyukuk and Yukon Rivers, of earlier Co-Youkon, from Russian kuyukantsy (plural), derivative of Kuyukak “the Koyukuk River,” ultimately derived from Inupiaq kuiyuk