The English spelling family tepee / teepee / tipi adapts Dakota thípi and regularizes its sounds in English.
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tipi
a conical portable dwelling of certain Great Plains peoples
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PARENT / EARLIER FORM / attestedDakota · Dakota historical and modern record · portable dwellingthípi
dwelling; the source of English tipi
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A Dakota dwelling term becomes an English name for a specific Great Plains dwelling form.
The spelling-family first-known-use report is 1743.
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Tepee — Word HistoryVariants and Word History — Dakota thípi
supportsAUDIT SOURCE ↗ORIGINAL ↗Documents tepee, teepee, and tipi plus the Dakota source.
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