Senklip

Syllable breakdown

Name meaning and origin

Origin

Okanagan/Syilx (Canada)

Meaning

a Syilx Okanagan name meaning Coyote, the great trickster and transformer figure central to the oral literature and cosmology of the Syilx people of the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia; Coyote is not simply a comic figure but a powerful creative and instructive being whose stories encode ethical teachings, ecological knowledge, and accounts of how the world was made ready for human life; naming a son Senklip associates him with cleverness, adaptability, irreverence towards pretension, and the capacity to transform difficulty into opportunity

Gender

male