Etymology

Bella Coola

Today it means: The Nuxálk First Nation. Full definition →

Heiltsuk bḷ́xʷlá
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Heiltsuk · borrowed frombḷ́xʷlá“stranger”
  2. English todayBella Coola

From Heiltsuk bḷ́xʷlá (“stranger”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.