The word "Wolf" in different North American Native Languages
Algonquin: mahigan
Apache: ba'cho, ba'uchaahi, ma'cho
Athabascan: teekon
Cherokee: wahy'a, wa-ya
Cheyenne: ho'nene; maiyun
Chinook: lelou, leloo
Chipewyan: segolia , nuniye
Choctaw: neshoba
Cree: Mahigan
Greenland-Inuit: amarog
Hopi: kweeuu
Inuktitut: singarti
Inupiat: amaguk
Kiowa: kooy
Lakota: shunkaha
Lakota tanka: suuk manitu
Lenape: mohegan, te-me
Mohawk: mahiingan
Mvskoke: yvhv
Navajo: ma'iitsoh
Nootka: lokwa'
Ojibwe: Maengun
Pawnee: skiri' ki
Seminole: o-ba-ho-she
Seneca: kyiyu
Shawnee: m-weowa
Shoshone: beya ish
Ute: sinapu
AHO
~Whitewolfe
think you! my favoret animal's name in moltible native amarican languages. love it! abusalutly beautiful!
ReplyDeleteYou are wrong on the Lakota word for wolf.....it is Sungmanitu Thanka
ReplyDeleteAlso Shunka is dog