Sinixt

[ sin-ahykst ]

noun

, plural Sin·ixts, (especially collectively) Sin·ixt

1. a member of an Indigenous people of the Columbia River Basin in British Columbia and Washington State.
2. the Salishan language of the Sinixt.

adjective

1. of or relating to the Sinixt or their language.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Sinixt¹

First recorded in 1820–30; from Okanagan (an Interior Salish language spoken in southern British Columbia and northern Washington State) snʕickstx, sngaytskstx “person of the place of the bull trout,” apparently a reference to a place on the Arrow Lakes, British Columbia