The story
- Eastern Canadian Inuktitut · derived fromoĸaĸ“tongue”
- English todayOkak
Derived from Eastern Canadian Inuktitut oĸaĸ (“tongue”). The settlement was named after Okak Bay, which is shaped roughly like a tongue.
First known use, by meaning
- From 1776 A ghost town in Nunatsiavut, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.