wickiup

Wickiup-like structures were built by many Native American peoples throughout the Southwestern United States,[1] and terms similar to wickiup are present "among Native Americans in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Idaho, and California",[2] but the source of the word appears to be Fox wîkiyâpi (“house”).[1][3] Alternatively, it may be a variant of wikiwam (“wigwam”). Either way, its ultimate origin is the Proto-Algonquian root *wi·kiwa·ʔmi (“house”). Doublet of wigwam.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪkɪʌp/[4]
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈwɪk.i.ʌp/

wickiup (plural wickiups)

1. A domed hut, similar to a wigwam, used by some semi-nomadic Native American tribes, particularly in the southwestern and western United States.
   • 1930, Edna Ferber, Cimarron, page 11:

     They say his real name is Cimarron Seven, of the Choctaw Indian family of Sevens; he was raised in a tepee; a wickiup had been his bedroom, a blanket his robe.

   • 1992, Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses:

     At that time there were still indians camped on the western plains and late in the day he passed in his riding a scattered group of their wickiups propped upon that scoured and trembling waste.

• wakiup, wikiup

• traditional Native American dwellings:
  • hogan (used by the Navajo in the southwestern United States)
  • igloo (used by the Inuit, made of snow)
  • teepee (used in the Great Plains)
  • tupik (used by the Inuit during the summer)
  • wetu (used by the Wampanoag in the northeastern United States)
  • wickiup (used in the southwestern and western United States)
  • wigwam (used in the northeastern United States)