phanem

Abenaki edit

Etymology edit

John Dyneley Prince speculated in 1905 that this term and the Mahican term ph·ánam (his spelling, corresponding to /phanam/, which he compares to De Forest's p'ghainoom) may be "connected by metathesis with" the same root from which squaw derives (which is Proto-Algonquian *eθkwe·wa (“(young) woman”)). Prince wrote "I think p-h· in ph·ánam is a metathesis of k(p)-w(h)".^[1]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /pᵊhanəm/

Noun edit

phanem

woman

References edit

Joseph Laurent (1884) New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues, Quebec: Leger Brousseau, page 10

^ A Tale in the Hudson River Indian Language, in the American Anthropologist, volume 7 (1905), page 79

[1] A Tale in the Hudson River Indian Language, in the American Anthropologist, volume 7 (1905), page 79

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