sips

English

Noun

sips

1. plural of sip

Anagrams

• ISPs, PSIS, SSPI, piss, psis

Abenaki

Noun

sips (animate, plural sipsak)

1. 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)

1. bird

Derived terms

• sipsis - little, small bird