sips
English edit
Noun edit
sips
Anagrams edit
Abenaki edit
Noun edit
sips (animate, plural sipsak)
Inflection edit
- sipsak (plural)
- Sipsek (locative)
Penobscot edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
sips anim (diminutive sipsis)
Derived terms edit
- sipsis - little, small bird