Aleutian: Islands in the Pacific Ocean. A derivation of the Russian word "aleaut," meaning "bald rock," later appearing in the name applied to the river Olutora on the coast of Kamchatka, the people near the mouth of the stream being called Olutorsky. The Russians when first viewing the Alaskan natives applied the name Olutorsky. The initial 0 of the Russian invariably broadens into a sound almost equivalent to "a" in father, accounting for the transition from Olutorsky to Aleutsky, and then to Aleutian.

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