'Wigwam' in Different Algonquian Languages
These terms are possible Native American sources of the current terms (the Proto-Algonquian term was *wi·kiwa·Hmi)—
wigwam:
- wiquoam literally 'their house' in Delaware (cf. n1: neek 'my house', n2: keek 'thy house', n3: week 'his house')
- wikuwam in Eastern Wabenaki (Maliseet)
- wigwôm in Western Wabenaki (Abenaki language)
- ȣichiȣam in the Nipmuc language
- wiigiwaam in the Anishinaabe languages; syncoped as wiigwaam
- wiigiwaam in the Algonquin language can vary as miigiwaam (with the nX prefix m- instead of n3 prefix w-)
- wikuom in the Mi'kmaq language
- ookóówa in the Blackfoot language (without the possessive theme suffix -m)
- mâhëö'o in the Cheyenne language (with the nX prefix m- instead of n3 prefix w- and without the possessive theme suffix -m)
wickiup (perhaps a variant of wikiwam without the possessive theme suffix -m combined with ap(i) "sit"):
- wiikiyaapi in Fox
- wekeab in Saki
- wikiop in Menominee
- mekewāp in Cree (with the nX prefix m- instead of n3 prefix w-)
- mīciwāhp in Montagnais (with the nX prefix m- instead of n3 prefix w-)
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