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Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/sa·kima·wa
Proto-Algonquian
Noun
*sa·kima·wa
- male chief
Descendants
- Central Algonquian:
- Cree: okimahkân / ᐅᑭᒪᐦᑳᐣ (okimahkaan)
- Ojibwe: ogimaa
- Fox: okimâwa
- Miami: akimaawa, akima
- Eastern Algonquian:
- Mi'kmaq: saqamaw
- → English: sagamore (borrowed from an Algonquian language, possibly Mi'kmaq)
- Abenaki: sôgmô, sôgemô
- Penobscot: sagəma
- Malecite-Passamaquoddy: sakom
- Narragansett: sachem
- → English: sachem
- Mohegan-Pequot: sôcum
- Unami: sakima
- Mi'kmaq: saqamaw
References
- Bloomfield (1946)
- Goddard (1965)
- Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN