ospwâkan

Plains Cree

Etymology

From Proto-Algonquian *wespwa·kana.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈʊs.pʷɑːˌkʌn]
• Hyphenation: os‧pwâ‧kan

Noun

ospwâkan anim (plural ospwâkanak, augmentative misospwâkan, Syllabics ᐅᐢᑇᑲᐣ)

1. pipe

References

• H. C. Wolfart (1973) “Plains Cree: A grammatical study”, in Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, volume 63, number 5, Philadelphia, page 22
• H. C. Wolfart (1996) “Sketch of Cree, an Algonquian language”, in Handbook of North American Indians, volume 17, Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institute, page 398
• Jean L. Okimâsis (2018) Cree: Language of the plains‎^[1], University of Regina Press, →ISBN, page 318