Sentence examples for cree words from inspiring English sources

The name Winnipeg comes from the Cree words for "muddy waters".

The name Winnipeg comes from the Western Cree words for "muddy waters".

Yoho, by the way, is a Cree word loosely translated as "awesome".

The river, named from a Cree word meaning "swift-flowing current," was for long an important fur-trading route after first being explored by Henry Kelsey in 1690.

Mayor Piche's office looks across a bend in the Kapuskasing River, named for the Cree word for "branch of a river," toward the giant smokestacks of the paper mill that employs one out of every 10 of its 10,000 inhabitants.

With entries ranging from pwâkamo-pahkwêsikan, the Cree word for pizza – "the throw-up bread" in literal English – to môniyâw-matotisân, a sauna or a "white-man sweat", a crowdsourcing project documenting the vitality and evolution of the most widely spoken indigenous language in Canada is about to be published.

They are a relative of the hickory, and their name comes from a Cree word meaning "bone shell" or "hard shell". Their botanical name, Carya illinoinensis, or Illinois hickory, may be a misnomer, since you won't find many pecans growing there.

The name wapiti is from the Shawnee and Cree word waapiti, meaning "white rump".

He founded and named the Province of Manitoba (a Cree word meaning "the god that speaks").

The name Winnipeg is a transcription of the Western Cree word wi-nipe-k meaning "muddy waters"; the area was populated for several thousand years by First Nations.

So, it's really about environmental greed, and the word "Keshagesh" is a Cree word, and it literally means "greedy guts".