wigwam

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"Rest with us," he said; "my wigwam is yours."

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  1. noun A Native American dwelling commonly having an arched or conical framework overlaid with bark, hides, or mats.
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    English has adopted two words for Native American dwellings from languages in the Algonquian family. Both wigwam and wickiup come from the Algonquian root wik- (with a variant wig-), "to dwell,” to which suffixes are added. Wigwam comes from Abenaki wigwam (spelled various ways) and means "their dwelling”; wickiup comes from Fox dialect wikiyap or wikiyapi, "a dwelling, wigwam.”

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  1. Eastern Abenaki wìkəwαm.

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  1. Formerly also weekwam; from an Algonkin word represented by Etchemin weekwahm, a house, week, his house, neek, my house, keek, thy house, Massachusetts week or wēk, his house, wēkon-om-ut. in his or their house, etc.; Cree wikiwāk, in their houses.
 

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/ˈwɪgwɔm/
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