wemistikoshiw
English edit
Etymology edit
From Cree, literally "he has a wooden boat", from ᒥᐢᑎᑯᓯ (mistikosi)/mistikosi (“wooden boat”).
Noun edit
wemistikoshiw (plural wemistikoshiw)
- (Canada) Among the Cree, a non-Native American person; a white man.
- 2005, Joseph Boyden, Three Day Road, Penguin, published 2008, page 6:
- We are crying, looking at one another. A small group of wemistikoshiw gathers and stares at us.
- 2014, Edmund Metatawabin, Up Ghost River:
- Sister Wesley said we needed the building to protect us from other wemistikoshiw men who live a long way away, who are called the Soviets.