Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/aya·pe·wa

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.

Compare *na·pe·wa (“male, man”).

*aya·pe·wa (plural *aya·pe·waki)

1. buck, male ungulate

• 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:
    • Unami ayape (“deer”)

• Philip Baldi, Linguistic Change and Reconstruction Methodology →ISBN, 1990)