Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/eθkwe·wa

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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.

Proto-Algonquian

Alternative reconstructions

  • *eɬkwe·wa (alternative orthography)

Etymology

Perhaps from the same Proto-Algic root as Yurok -ahpew (wife) ('n-ahpew (my wife), k'-ahpew (your wife)).[1]

Noun

*eθkwe·wa

  1. (young) woman

Descendants

  • Plains Algonquian:
    • Arapahoan:
      • Arapaho: hisei (woman)
      • Nawathinehena: hihi'i (woman)
      • Gros Ventre: hiθã (woman)
    • Blackfoot: aakííwa (woman)
    • Cheyenne: hē'e (woman)
  • Central Algonquian:
      • Eastern Great Lakes:
        • Ojibwe-Potawatomi
        • Algonquin: ikwe (woman)
        • Ojibwe: ikwe (woman)
        • Ottawa: kwe (woman)
        • Western Ojibwa: ihkwē (woman)
        • Potawatomi: kwe (woman)
      • Fox: ihkwêwa (woman)
      • Kickapoo: ihkweea (woman)
      • Menominee: -ɛhki·w- (woman)
  • Eastern Algonquian:
    • Abenaki: -skwa (female, wife)
    • Delaware:
      • Mahican: -squoh (woman)
      • Munsee: óxkweew (woman)
      • Unami: xkwe (young woman)
    • Malecite-Passamaquoddy: -sq(-)
    • Massachusett: squàw (woman)
    • Mi'kmaq: -(')sgw (woman)
    • Quiripi: squah (woman)
    • Nanticoke: ochquau (woman)
    • Narragansett: squaw (woman)
    • Penobscot: -skwe- (woman)
    • Powhatan: -squa (woman, wife, female)
    • Mohegan-Pequot: sqá (woman)
    • English: squaw (Native American woman) (from one or more of the above languages, most likely Massachusett and Narragansett)

References

  • Ives Goddard, The True History of the Word Squaw, in Indian Country News (April 1997)
  1. ^ according to an essay in Culture in history: essays in honor of Paul Radin (1975)