Dakota edit

Alternative forms edit

wacipi

Etymology edit

From wačhí (to dance) + -pi (plural marker, they).

Noun edit

wačhípi

  1. a dance, dancing
  2. powwow[usage 1]

Verb edit

wačhípi

  1. third-person plural present indicative of wačhí (to dance)

Usage edit

  1. ^ Boutin 2012: Powwow and wacipi are not necessarily synonymous, as historian Loren Dean Boutin notes: "'Powwow' and 'wacipi' are sometimes used almost synonymously [among Dakota], but 'powwow' is the word with the broadest meaning. A powwow can and usually does have a wacipi within it". (p. 21)

Further reading edit

  • Dakhód Iápi Wičhóie Wówapi[1] (in Dakota), Dakhóta Iápi Okhodákičhiye, 2021, retrieved 18 September 2023
  • Boutin, Loren Dean (2012) The Mankato Reconciliation Powwow, Saint Cloud, Minnesota: North Star Press of St. Cloud, Inc., →ISBN

Lakota edit

Alternative forms edit

wacipi

Etymology edit

From wačhí (to dance) + -pi (plural marker).

Noun edit

wačhípi

  1. a dance, dancing, powwow

Verb edit

wačhípi

  1. third-person plural present indicative of wačhí (to dance)