mîciwin

Plains Cree

Etymology

From mîci (“to eat”) +‎ -win.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈmiː.t͡sɪˌwɪn]
• Hyphenation: mî‧ci‧win

Noun

mîciwin inan (plural mîciwina, Syllabics ᒦᒋᐏᐣ)

1. food

References

• H. C. Wolfart (1973) “Plains Cree: A grammatical study”, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, volume 63, number 5, Philadelphia, page 72
• H. C. Wolfart (1996) “Sketch of Cree, an Algonquian language”, in Handbook of North American Indians, volume 17, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institute, page 399
• Jean L. Okimâsis (2018) Cree: Language of the plains‎^[1], University of Regina Press, →ISBN, page 315