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Winnebago
Etymology
From Proto-Siouan *wa-rį́•.
Pronunciation
Noun
nįį
- 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