Nuu-Chah-Nulth (no?o?chä?no?ol)n. See Nootka.[Nootka nuu?aan?u?, mountain range, the Nootka people (chosen by the Nootka in the 1970s as their ethnic self-designation) : nuu?i, mountain, -an?u?, -aan?u?, along.]American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.