Abenaki

Noun

nebi

1. water

Related terms

• nebes ‎(“lake”)

Derived terms

• awighiganebi ‎(“ink”)

References

• Joseph Laurent, New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues (1884)
• John Dyneley Prince, The Differentiation Between the Penobscot and the Canadian Abenaki Dialects, in the American Anthropologist, volume 4 (1902)

Penobscot

Etymology

From Proto-Algonquian *nepyi, from Proto-Algic *nepiʔi ‎(“water”).

Noun

nebi

1. water

References

• 1902, J. Dyneley Prince, The Differentiation Between the Penobscot and the Canadian Abenaki Dialects, in the American Anthropologist, volume 4