Athabascan definitions

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a group of Amerindian languages (the name coined by an American anthropologist, Edward Sapir) [syn: Athapaskan, Athapascan, Athabaskan, Athabascan, Athapaskan language]
2: a member of any of the North American Indian groups speaking an Athapaskan language and living in the subarctic regions of western Canada and central Alaska [syn: Athapaskan, Athapascan, Athabaskan, Athabascan]

Merriam Webster's

or Athabaskan; also Athapaskan or Athapascan noun Etymology: Athabasca, a Cree band, from Cree dialect a?apaska•w, name for the area east of Lake Athabasca, literally, (where) there are reeds one after another Date: 1846 1. a family of American Indian languages spoken primarily in western Canada, Alaska, and the United States Southwest 2. a member of a people speaking an Athabascan language