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English
Noun
sips
- plural of sip
Anagrams
Abenaki
Noun
sips (animate, plural sipsak)
- bird
Inflection
- sipsak (plural)
- Sipsek (locative)
Penobscot
Etymology
Cognate with Malecite-Passamaquoddy sips (“a bird, especially a duck”), Abenaki sips (“bird”). Possibly cognate with Massachusett sēsēp (“duck”), Menominee sēqsep (“duck”), Ojibwe zhiishiib (“duck”), Miami šiihšiipa (“duck”), Cree sîsîp/sisip (“duck”).
Noun
sips anim (diminutive sipsis)
- bird
Derived terms