WIGWAM

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WIGWAM , a

term

TERM

loosely adopted as a

general

name for the houses of

North

American Indians. It is, however, strictly applied to a particular

dome

DOME (Lat domus,
house
- HOUSE
- HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic
  languages
  - LANGUAGES
  , cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
  Gothic
  - GOTHIC
  it is only found in gudhiss, a
  temple
  ; it may be ultimately connected with the
  root
  - ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
  - ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
  of " hide," conceal)
; Ital. duomo,
cathedral
- CATHEDRAL
)

-shaped or conical hut made of poles lashed together at the tops and covered with bark. The skin tents of many of the Plains Indians are called tipis. The word " wigwam " represents the Europeanized or Anglicized form of the Algonkian wekou-om-ut, i.e. " in his (their)

house

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic
languages
- LANGUAGES
, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a
temple
; it may be ultimately connected with the
root
- ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
- ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
of " hide," conceal)

."

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