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This Proto-Algonquian entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.
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Proto-Algonquian
Etymology
Compare *na·pe·wa (“male, man”).
Noun
*aya·pe·wa (plural *aya·pe·waki)
- buck, male ungulate
Descendants
- Plains Algonquian:
- Arapaho: henéécee (“buffalo bull”) (Kroeber's orthography: hanâⁿteäⁿ), henééčeenó' (“buffalo bulls”)
- Nawathinehena: hitāⁿmōⁿ
- Gros Ventre: hänāⁿtyei
- Cheyenne: hotóá'e (“buffalo bull, male buffalo”)
- Central Algonquian:
- Plains Cree: ᐃᔮᐯᐤ (iyâpêw, “buck, bull elk, bull moose”)
- Montagnais: iapeutikᵘ (“young caribou buck”)
- Naskapi: ᐃᔭᐸᐅᑎᐧᒄ (iyapautiykw, “caribou buck”)
- Menominee: aya·pɛ·w (“male; stag, buck”)
- Ojibwe: ayaabe (“buck, male deer”)
- Potawatomi: yabé (“buck”)
- Fox: ayâpêha (“buck”)
- Miami: ayaapia (“buck”)
- Eastern Algonquian:
- Mohegan-Pequot: ayôp (“buck, male deer”)
- Massachusett: aiyump (“a hart”), ayimp, eiyimp
- Malecite-Passamaquoddy: iyap (“buck”), yap
- Penobscot: áyαpe (“buck”)
- Mahican: ayãapaw (“buck, male deer”)
- Delaware:
References
- Philip Baldi, Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology →ISBN, 1990)