Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/wa·p-

This Proto-Algonquian entry contains reconstructed words 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

Particle

*wa·p-

(be) white

Derived terms

*wa·p-aʔθemwa (“white dog”)
*wa·pi-ki·la·hkwa (“white goose, snow goose”)
*wa·paθkwa (“white bear, polar bear”) (possibly formed at a pre-PA date)

Descendants

Plains Algonquian:
- Blackfoot: ap- (“white”)
- Cheyenne: -vóhpo (“whitish, greyish, light”)
Central Algonquian:
- Cree: wâpi-/ᐋᐧᐱ (aaypi, “white”)
- Ojibwe: waabishkaa (“it is white”)
- Fox: wâpâtêwi (“it is light, pale, faded; white, grey”)
- Miami: waapisita (“he is white”)
Eastern Algonquian:
- Abenaki: wôbi- (“white”)
- Penobscot: wɔ·mb- (“white”)
- Malecite-Passamaquoddy: wap- (“white”)
- Mohegan-Pequot: wôpisu- (“she or he is white”)
- Quiripi: wámpayo (“white”) (Unquachog)
- Mahican: wapáju (“it is white”)
- Unami: op- (“white (in compounds)”)

References

Cheyenne Dictionary of Fisher, Leman, Pine, and Sanchez
Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN