wôwan

Abenaki

Etymology

Cognate to the Malecite-Passamaquoddy word wawon (“egg”).

Noun

wôwan (inanimate, plural wôwanal)

  1. egg

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