Reconstruction:Proto-Algonquian/sa·kima·wa

This Proto-Algonquian entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Algonquian

Noun

*sa·kima·wa

male chief

Descendants

Central Algonquian:
- Cree: okimahkân / ᐅᑭᒪᐦᑳᐣ
  - Plains Cree: okimâw
- Ojibwe: ogimaa
- Fox: okimâwa
- Miami: akimaawa, akima
Eastern Algonquian: *sākīmāw
- Mi'kmaq: saqamaw
  - → English: sagamore (borrowed from an Algonquian language, possibly Mi'kmaq)
- Abenaki: sôgmô, sôgemô
- Penobscot: sagəma
- Malecite-Passamaquoddy: sakom
- Narragansett: sachem
  - → English: sachem
- Mohegan-Pequot: sôcum
- Unami: sakima

References

Bloomfield (1946)
Goddard (1965)
Costa, David J. (2003) The Miami-Illinois Language (Studies in the Native Languages of the Americas), Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN

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