aq'am
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 2.99 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
Alternative form of ʔaq̓am.
Example Sentences
- "In April, 2023, Mr. Gray helped carry out a fire treatment near the Ktunaxa Nation community of Aq'am, outside Cranbrook, B.C., that was widely credited with helping save homes and protect the nearby regional airport during a wildfire later that summer."
- "Last April, Aq'am, along with fire crews from nearby communities and the B.C. Wildfire Service, undertook a large-scale, 12-square-kilometre prescribed burn on Aq'am lands north of the St. Mary River and east of the Canadian Rockies International Airport."
- "Near the Aq’am First Nation in November, B.C.-based fire ecologist Bob Gray looks out at forests destroyed by a wildfire four months earlier. The danger to populated areas could have been worse if not for a prescribed burn in April on some other Aq’am land."
- "The statement says the Aq'am community conducted the search in 2020. It also says the residential school operated from 1912 to the 1970s."
Etymology
From Ktunaxa ʔaq̓am.
Word Breakdown
- Root: ʔaq̓am