Where does “qalipu” come from?

qalipu (Mi'kmaq) comes from Proto-Algonquian maka·lipowa, from Proto-Algonquian maka·l- — scrape, shovel, remove.

qalipu (Mi'kmaq): caribou

Definitions

  1. caribou

Ancestry of “qalipu”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Algonquianmaka·lipowacaribou
2Proto-Algonquianmaka·l-scrape, shovel, remove

Words derived from “qalipu”

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