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tipi
One spelling in the English tepee–teepee–tipi family, borrowed from Dakota thípi and built on a Siouan dwelling root.
“Tipi is not a generic label invented for every Indigenous tent. It continues a Dakota dwelling word whose root can be compared back to Proto-Siouan *ahtí•.”OPEN COMPLETE WORD DOSSIER ↗
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Present-Day Englishtipi
a conical portable dwelling of certain Great Plains peoples
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Dakota · Dakota historical and modern recordthípidwelling; the source of English tipi
- SOUND CHANGE
- The English spelling family tepee / teepee / tipi adapts Dakota thípi and regularizes its sounds in English.
- SEMANTIC CHANGE
- A Dakota dwelling term becomes an English name for a specific Great Plains dwelling form.
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- CHRONOLOGY
- The spelling-family first-known-use report is 1743.
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