skeetomp

Narragansett

Etymology

Compare Malecite-Passamaquoddy skitap, Massachusett wosketomp (“man”).[1][2]

Noun

skeétomp (plural skeétompaûog)

  1. man
    Synonym: nnìn

Declension

Declension of skeetomp (animate, 2 forms attested)
singular plural locative
unpossessed skeétomp skeétompaûog *skeetomp-ick (-uck, -eck, -eg, -it, -ut)
possessed forms
first-person (my) *n'skeetomp *n'skeetomp-auog *n'skeetomp-ick (-uck, -eck, -eg, -it, -ut)
second-person (your) *k'skeetomp *k'skeetomp-auog *k'skeetomp-ick (-uck, -eck, -eg, -it, -ut)
third-person (his, her) *w'skeetomp *w'skeetomp-auog *w'skeetomp-ick (-uck, -eck, -eg, -it, -ut)
  • eneskéetomp
  • eniskeetompaûwog

References

  1. ^ James Hammond Trumbull (1903), “wosketomp”, in Natick Dictionary, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 198
  2. ^ James Hammond Trumbull (1871), “On Algonkin Names for Man”, in Transactions of the American Philological Association, volume 2, →DOI, →ISSN

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