DENE


Meaning of DENE in English

[ 'dɛneɪ , 'dɛni ]

■ noun ( plural same)

1》 a member of a group of American Indian peoples of the Canadian North-West and Alaska.

2》 any of the Athabaskan languages of the ~.

Origin

from Fr. Déné , from an Athabaskan word meaning 'people'.

Concise Oxford English vocab.      Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка.