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- Cherokee · borrowed fromᎤᏁᎬ“white”
- English todayUnakas
Plural of Unaka, from Cherokee ᎤᏁᎬ (unegv, “white”). Doublet of Unicoi.
Words from the same roots
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Unicoi
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Unakas
Today it means: A mountain range in the southern Appalachians, on the border between Tennessee and North Carolina; since 1932 defined as the northern segment (north of the Little Tennessee River) of a range the southern segment of which is known as the Unicois (historically the two names sometimes interchangeably designated the whole range). Full definition →
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