Éy7á7juuthem

English

Etymology

Transcription of Comox ʔayʔaǰuθəm.

Proper noun

Éy7á7juuthem

  1. Alternative spelling of ʔayʔaǰuθəm.
    • 2019 December 6, Chantelle Bellrichard, “'Our language comes from this land': How culture and territory connect for Homalco First Nation”, in CBC News‎[1]:
      A large cardboard-backed calendar sits in the Homalco band office in Campbell River, B.C. It looks like a medicine wheel, or pie chart, dissected into several sections with words in Éy7á7juuthem and English handwritten in each space.
    • 2023 December 2, Kathryn Marlow, “It was deemed extinct. But now pentl'ach has been declared a living language thanks to Qualicum researchers”, in CBC News‎[2]:
      The revitalization of pentl'ach was helped by its historical connections to Éy7á7juuthem and similarities to Hul'q'umi'num' both neighbouring languages that are already on the province's list of First Nations languages.
      Éy7á7juuthem (pronounced EYE-a-jooth-um) is spoken by the K'omoks, Homalco, Klahoose and Tla'amin First Nations to the north of Qualicum, while the K'omoks also have connections to pentl'ach.
    • 2024 January 21, Graham Cocksedge, “An educator's perspective on addressing climate change”, in Powell River Peak‎[3]:
      I recently learned that the verb for learning in Éy7á7juuthem is the same for education: tɩwšəm.
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