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Tepee — Indo-European and Siouan Etymology
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- YEAR
- 2022
- PUBLISHER
- HarperCollins
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
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- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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Does tipi simply and literally mean “they dwell”?
The reviewed evidence safely derives thípi from a dwelling root; suffix analyses vary in how they label the final morphology, so the dossier promotes “dwelling” rather than one viral literal sentence.
Etymology — -pi abstract and collective noun suffixShows why a simplistic plural-sentence gloss should not be treated as the only analysis.
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thípi → thí-
Dakota → Dakota · derivation
- SOUND
- Dakota thípi is formed on thí- “to dwell”; the final morphology is treated conservatively rather than assigned a folk literal gloss.
- MEANING
- The act or state of dwelling supplies a noun for a dwelling.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster · American Heritage editors
Etymology — thí- plus -piSupports morphological analysis while avoiding the unsupported universal folk gloss.
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