wattap etymology?

[Leanne Riding]

I wan't familiar with this word before you mentioned it, but it does 
seem to be associated with bark canoe building, doesn't it?

David Robertson wrote:

>Ives Goddard has an article "Algonquian Linguistic Change and 
>Reconstruction" in the volume edited by Philip Baldi, "Linguistic Change 
>and Reconstruction Methodology", published in 1990 by Mouton de Gruyter.
>
>In this article, Goddard mentions a Proto-Algonquian cognate for Yurok & 
>Wiyot (NW California, distant relatives of Algonquian), all forms in the 
>set meaning 'spruce root' apparently. 
>
>The form in PA is *watapya.  The Yurok is 7wohpeG (G=gamma), the Wiyot is 
>to`p.
>
>Is this not the word we know in English as <wattap>, among other spellings, 
>in historical sources?  I'd thought it was a NW word, but it looks possible 
>that it's from back East, from some Algonquian language.  
>
>I don't have access to a specialized enough dictionary of English here at 
>home, so I wonder if someone else can tell about this.
>
>--Dave R
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