apikan

== Ojibwe == === Noun === apikan (Canadian syllabics spelling ᐊᐦᐱᐦᑲᓐ) (inanimate) harness (inanimate) strap; a cradleboard retainer strap (animate) garter snake ==== Declension ==== animate plural: apikanag (ᐊᐦᐱᐦᑲᓇᒃ) animate diminutive: apikaans (ᐊᐦᐱᐦᑳᓐᐦᔅ) animate contemptive: apikaanh (ᐊᐦᐱᐦᑳᔾ) inanimate plural: apikanan (ᐊᐦᐱᐦᑲᓇᓐ) inanimate diminutive: apikaans (ᐊᐦᐱᐦᑳᓐᐦᔅ) inanimate contemptive: 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