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Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/či·paya
Proto-Algonquian
Noun
*či·paya
- corpse
- ghost, spirit (separated from body)
Descendants
- Central Algonquian:
- Ojibwe: jiibay (“ghost, spirit”)
- Fox: chîpaya (“dead person; ghost”)
- Eastern Algonquian:
- Abenaki: chibai (“ghost”)
References
- Michelson (1935)
- Anthropological Linguistics, volume 39, issues 1-2 (1997), page 30