wickiup
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Though wickiups were built by many different tribes, the word apparently comes from wiikiyaapi or wikiyapy[1] meaning "lodge" or "house" in the Sac and Fox or Mesquakie language."[2] "Wickiups" could be found in the Southwestern United States region.[1] More specifically the term was present "among Native Americans in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, and California"[3] and originated from the Sac and Fox, two dialects of the same language that belong to the Algonquian language family.[2] Algonquian, a language spoken by many tribes, should not to be confused with Algonquin, the people of a tribe closer to Ottawa. By 2007 the language was spoken by about seven hundred members of the tribe in Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma.[2] Perhaps a variant of wikiwam ‘wigwam’.
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈwɪkɪʌp/
[edit] Noun
wickiup (plural wickiups)
- a domed hut, similar to a wigwam, used by some semi-nomadic Native American tribes.
- 1992: At that time there were still indians camped on the western plains and late in the day he passed in his riding a scattered group of their wickiups propped upon that scoured and trembling waste. — Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses
[edit] References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Wickiup Definition - Dictionary." MSN Encarta. 2007. Microsoft Corporation. 22 April 2007 http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861713131/wickiup.html
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "wickiup." The World in So Many Words. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1999. Answers.com 23 April 2007. http://www.answers.com/topic/wickiup
- ^ "wickiup." The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. Columbia University Press., 2003. Answers.com 23 April 2007. http://www.answers.com/topic/wickiup
