segôgw
Abenaki
FWOTD – 11 June 2018
Etymology
Literally "he who urinates", in reference to the animals' spraying of stinky musk, from Proto-Algonquian *šeka·kwa, from *šek- (“to urinate”) (Abenaki seg-).
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segôgw
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /səɡɔ̃ɡʷ/
Noun
segôgw (animate, plural segôgwak)
- skunk (small mammal with black and white coat and musk glands)
Descendants
- → English: skunk (see there for further descendants)
References
- Joseph Laurent (1884) New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues, Quebec: Leger Brousseau
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