Where does “caribou” come from?
caribou (French) comes from Mi'kmaq qalipu, from Proto-Algonquian maka·lipowa, from Proto-Algonquian maka·l- — scrape, shovel, remove.
caribou (French): caribou
Ancestry of “caribou”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Mi'kmaq | qalipu | caribou |
| 2 | Proto-Algonquian | maka·lipowa | caribou |
| 3 | Proto-Algonquian | maka·l- | scrape, shovel, remove |
Words derived from “caribou”