Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/sa·kima·wa

This Proto-Algonquian entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Algonquian

Noun

*sa·kima·wa

1. male chief

Descendants

• Central Algonquian:
  • Cree: okimahkân / ᐅᑭᒪᐦᑳᐣ
    • Plains Cree: okimâw
  • Ojibwe: ogimaa
  • Fox: okimâwa
  • Miami: akimaawa, akima
• Eastern Algonquian: *sākīmāw
  • Mi'kmaq: saqamaw
    • → English: sagamore (borrowed from an Algonquian language, possibly Mi'kmaq)
  • Abenaki: sôgmô, sôgemô
  • Penobscot: sagəma
  • Malecite-Passamaquoddy: sakom
  • Narragansett: sachem
    • → English: sachem
  • Mohegan-Pequot: sôcum
  • Unami: sakima

References

• Bloomfield (1946)
• Goddard (1965)
• Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN