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Ten⋅a

[ten-uh]
–noun
Koyukon.

Ko⋅yu⋅kon

[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 Athabaskan language of the Koyukon.
Also called Tena.


Origin:
resp., after the Koyukuk and Yukon Rivers, of earlier Co-Youkon < Russ kuyukantsy (pl.), deriv. of Kuyukak the Koyukuk River ≪ Inupiaq kuiyuk
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