sips

English

Noun

sips

  1. plural of sip

Anagrams

Abenaki

Noun

sips (animate, plural sipsak)

  1. bird

Inflection

  • sipsak (plural)
  • Sipsek (locative)

Penobscot

Etymology

Cognate with Malecite-Passamaquoddy sips (a bird, especially a duck), Abenaki sips (bird). Possibly cognate with Massachusett sēsēp (duck), Menominee sēqsep (duck), Ojibwe zhiishiib (duck), Miami šiihšiipa (duck), Cree sîsîp/sisip (duck).

Noun

sips anim (diminutive sipsis)

  1. bird

Derived terms

  • sipsis - little, small bird
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