wigwam
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Abenaki wigwôm (“house”) or Penobscot wigwom (“house”),[1] from Proto-Algonquian *wi·kiwa·ʔmi (“house”). Doublet of wickiup.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /ˈwɪɡwɑːm/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
editwigwam (plural wigwams)
- A dwelling having an arched framework overlaid with bark, hides, or mats, used by Native Americans in the northeastern United States.
- (possibly dated) Any more or less similar dwelling used by indigenous people in other parts of the world.
- 1796, J[ohn] G[abriel] Stedman, chapter XV, in Narrative of a Five Years’ Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America; […], volume I, London: J[oseph] Johnson, […], and J. Edwards, […], →OCLC, page 388:
- Their houſes or wigwams, which they call carbets, are built as I have already deſcribed thoſe of the negroes; but inſtead of being covered with the leaves of the manicole-tree, they are covered with the leaves of rattans or jointed canes, here called tas, which grow in cluſters in all marſhy places: [...]
- 1845 edition, Charles Darwin, Journal and Remarks (The Voyage of the Beagle):
- The Fuegian wigwam resembles, in size and dimensions, a haycock. It merely consists of a few broken branches stuck in the ground, and very imperfectly thatched on one side with a few tufts of grass and rushes.
Derived terms
editTranslations
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Verb
editwigwam (third-person singular simple present wigwams, present participle wigwamming, simple past and past participle wigwammed)
- (transitive) To dry (flax or straw) by standing it outside in the shape of a wigwam.
See also
edit- traditional Native American dwellings:
- hogan (used by the Navajo in the southwestern United States)
- igloo (used by the Inuit, made of snow)
- teepee (used in the Great Plains)
- tupik (used by the Inuit during the summer)
- wetu (used by the Wampanoag in the northeastern United States)
- wickiup (used in the southwestern and western United States)
- wigwam (used in the northeastern United States)
References
edit- ^ Frank G. Speck, Newell Lion (1918 August) “Penobscot Transformer Tales”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 1, number 3
Catalan
editEtymology
editUltimately from Abenaki wigwôm (“house”) or Penobscot wigwom (“house”), borrowed via English wigwam or French wigwam.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editwigwam m (plural wigwams)
Further reading
edit- “wigwam” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
Finnish
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
editwigwam
- wigwam (dwelling)
Declension
editInflection of wigwam (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
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nominative | wigwam | wigwamit | |
genitive | wigwamin | wigwamien | |
partitive | wigwamia | wigwameja | |
illative | wigwamiin | wigwameihin | |
singular | plural | ||
nominative | wigwam | wigwamit | |
accusative | nom. | wigwam | wigwamit |
gen. | wigwamin | ||
genitive | wigwamin | wigwamien | |
partitive | wigwamia | wigwameja | |
inessive | wigwamissa | wigwameissa | |
elative | wigwamista | wigwameista | |
illative | wigwamiin | wigwameihin | |
adessive | wigwamilla | wigwameilla | |
ablative | wigwamilta | wigwameilta | |
allative | wigwamille | wigwameille | |
essive | wigwamina | wigwameina | |
translative | wigwamiksi | wigwameiksi | |
abessive | wigwamitta | wigwameitta | |
instructive | — | wigwamein | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
French
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Abenaki wigwôm (“house”) or Penobscot wigwom (“house”), from Proto-Algonquian *wi·kiwa·ʔmi (“house”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editwigwam m (plural wigwams)
Further reading
edit- “wigwam”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
editEtymology
editUnadapted borrowing from English wigwam.
Noun
editwigwam m (invariable)
Polish
editEtymology
editBorrowed from English wigwam, from Abenaki wigwôm or Penobscot wigwom, from Proto-Algonquian *wi·kiwa·ʔmi.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editwigwam m inan
Declension
editFurther reading
edit- wigwam in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Potawatomi
editNoun
editwigwam
References
edit- Donald Perrot (2017) Memejek Ebodewadmimyak: Mnokmek, Amazon.com
Romanian
editEtymology
editNoun
editwigwam n (plural wigwamuri)
Declension
editsingular | plural | ||||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | ||
nominative-accusative | wigwam | wigwamul | wigwamuri | wigwamurile | |
genitive-dative | wigwam | wigwamului | wigwamuri | wigwamurilor | |
vocative | wigwamule | wigwamurilor |
- English terms borrowed from Abenaki
- English terms derived from Abenaki
- English terms borrowed from Penobscot
- English terms derived from Penobscot
- English terms derived from Proto-Algonquian
- English doublets
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- English terms with IPA pronunciation
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- English nouns
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- en:Native Americans
- en:Buildings
- en:Flax
- Catalan terms derived from Abenaki
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- Catalan terms with IPA pronunciation
- Catalan lemmas
- Catalan nouns
- Catalan countable nouns
- Catalan terms spelled with W
- Catalan masculine nouns
- ca:Buildings
- Finnish terms borrowed from English
- Finnish terms derived from English
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/iɡwɑm
- Rhymes:Finnish/iɡwɑm/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish terms spelled with W
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- French terms borrowed from Abenaki
- French terms derived from Abenaki
- French terms borrowed from Penobscot
- French terms derived from Penobscot
- French terms derived from Proto-Algonquian
- French 2-syllable words
- French terms with IPA pronunciation
- French lemmas
- French nouns
- French countable nouns
- French terms spelled with W
- French masculine nouns
- Italian terms borrowed from English
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- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian indeclinable nouns
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- Polish terms borrowed from English
- Polish terms derived from English
- Polish terms derived from Abenaki
- Polish terms derived from Penobscot
- Polish terms derived from Proto-Algonquian
- Polish 2-syllable words
- Polish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Polish terms with audio pronunciation
- Rhymes:Polish/iɡvam
- Rhymes:Polish/iɡvam/2 syllables
- Polish lemmas
- Polish nouns
- Polish masculine nouns
- Polish inanimate nouns
- pl:Housing
- pl:Native Americans
- Potawatomi lemmas
- Potawatomi nouns
- Romanian terms borrowed from English
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- Romanian lemmas
- Romanian nouns
- Romanian countable nouns
- Romanian terms spelled with W
- Romanian neuter nouns