nįį

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Winnebago

Etymology

From Proto-Siouan *wa-rį́•.

Pronunciation

Noun

nįį

  1. water

References

  • Bryan Rosen (2016) “On the structure and constituency of Hocąk resultatives”, in Catherine Rudin & Bryan James Gordon, editors, Advances in the study of Siouan languages and linguistics, Berlin: Language Science Press, →DOI, →OCLC, page 328
  • Rankin, Robert L. & Carter, Richard T. & Jones, A. Wesley & Koontz, John E. & Rood, David S. & Hartmann, Iren (eds.) (2015) Comparative Siouan Dictionary, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology