apikan

Ojibwe

Noun

apikan (Canadian syllabics spelling ᐊᐦᐱᐦᑲᓐ)

1. (inanimate) harness
2. (inanimate) strap; a cradleboard retainer strap
3. (animate) garter snake

Declension

• animate plural: apikanag (ᐊᐦᐱᐦᑲᓇᒃ)
• animate diminutive: apikaans (ᐊᐦᐱᐦᑳᓐᐦᔅ)
• animate contemplitive: apikaanh (ᐊᐦᐱᐦᑳᔾ)

• inanimate plural: apikanan (ᐊᐦᐱᐦᑲᓇᓐ)
• inanimate diminutive: apikaans (ᐊᐦᐱᐦᑳᓐᐦᔅ)
• inanimate contemplitive: apikaanh (ᐊᐦᐱᐦᑳᔾ)

Derived terms

• apikanaatigoon
• apikanajiganeyaabiin
• miigisapikanan

Other Syllabic forms

• Fully pointed mixed-finals: ᐊᐦᐱᐦᑲᓐ
• Fully-pointed Eastern A-finals: ᐊᐦᐱᐦᑲᓐ
• Common Eastern A-finals: ᐊᐱᑲᓐ
• Unpointed Eastern A-finals: ᐊᐱᑲᓐ

Transformations

• unaffected: apikan
• syncope: pikan
• initial change: epikan
• initial change syncope: epkan
• reduplication: ayapikan
• reduplication syncope: yapkan
• initial change reduplication: eyepikan
• initial change reduplication syncope: eyepkan

Other Roman orthographies

• Algonquin: apikan
  • Cuoq: apikan
• Manitoba Saulteaux: ahpihkan
  • Ontario Saulteaux: ahpihkan
• Baraga: apikan

References

• Freelang Electronic Ojibwe Dictionary
• "apikan" in A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language, Beauchemin & Valois, 1878.
• Jean André Cuoq, Lexique de la Langue Algonquine. Montréal, J. Chapleau & Fils, 1886
• John D. Nichols and Earl Nyholm, A Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1995
• Richard A. Rhodes, Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa Dictionary. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 1985