apikan

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Ojibwe

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Noun

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apikan (Canadian syllabics spelling ᐊᐦᐱᐦᑲᓐ)

  1. (inanimate) harness
  2. (inanimate) strap; a cradleboard retainer strap
  3. (animate) garter snake

Declension

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  • animate plural: apikanag (ᐊᐦᐱᐦᑲᓇᒃ)
  • animate diminutive: apikaans (ᐊᐦᐱᐦᑳᓐᐦᔅ)
  • animate contemplitive: apikaanh (ᐊᐦᐱᐦᑳᔾ)
  • inanimate plural: apikanan (ᐊᐦᐱᐦᑲᓇᓐ)
  • inanimate diminutive: apikaans (ᐊᐦᐱᐦᑳᓐᐦᔅ)
  • inanimate contemplitive: apikaanh (ᐊᐦᐱᐦᑳᔾ)

Derived terms

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Other Syllabic forms
  • Fully pointed mixed-finals: ᐊᐦᐱᐦᑲᓐ
  • Fully-pointed Eastern A-finals: ᐊᐦᐱᐦᑲᓐ
  • Common Eastern A-finals: ᐊᐱᑲᓐ
  • Unpointed Eastern A-finals: ᐊᐱᑲᓐ
Transformations
  • unaffected: apikan
  • syncope: pikan
  • initial change: epikan
  • initial change syncope: epkan
  • reduplication: ayapikan
  • reduplication syncope: yapkan
  • initial change reduplication: eyepikan
  • initial change reduplication syncope: eyepkan
Other Roman orthographies
  • Algonquin: apikan
    • Cuoq: apikan
  • Manitoba Saulteaux: ahpihkan
    • Ontario Saulteaux: ahpihkan
  • Baraga: apikan

References

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  • Freelang Electronic Ojibwe Dictionary
  • "apikan" in A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language, Beauchemin & Valois, 1878.
  • Jean André Cuoq, Lexique de la Langue Algonquine. Montréal, J. Chapleau & Fils, 1886
  • John D. Nichols and Earl Nyholm, A Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1995
  • Richard A. Rhodes, Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa Dictionary. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 1985