Meanings
- Large ridge of rock, made of gneiss, located south of Vaseux Lake between Okanagan Falls and Oliver in British Columbia, Canada.
caylx (Richard Armstrong), right, concludes a salmon calling ceremony along sq’awsitkʷ (the Okanagan River) at nʕaylintn (McIntyre Bluff) in syilx territory on June 25.
2025 June 27, “During ceremony at nʕaylintn, syilx people call their salmon relatives home”, in The Hamilton Spectator1 more example
McIntyre Bluff was previously named for a local settler, but it has been an important landmark for the Osoyoos Indian Band (OIB) and its Okanagan ancestors for millennia. Appropriately, it is now called nʕaylintn (pronounced nigh-lin-tin).
2023 October 31, “Explore the Legends of Fall in the South Okanagan”, in The Williams Lake TribuneSynonyms: McIntyre Bluff
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounLarge ridge of rock, made of gneiss, located south of Vaseux Lake between Okanagan Falls and Oliver in British Columbia, Canada.
Origin
- Okanagannʕaylintn
- Englishnʕaylintn
Unadapted borrowing from Okanagan nʕaylintn.
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nʕaylintn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/n%CA%95aylintn
“nʕaylintn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/n%CA%95aylintn. Accessed November 5, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nʕaylintn,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/n%CA%95aylintn.
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