town

[Rankin, Robert L.]

OK, then either Algonquian is the source of the Siouan and Choctaw forms or it is simply not related.  But the Algonquian terms are not Meso-American loanwords.

Bob

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Basically, yes: Fox o·te·weni, Shawnee hoteewe, Ojibwe oodena, Cree o·te·naw, Munsee Delaware o·té·nay, Western Abenaki odana, Passamaquoddy uten, etc. There's some messiness with the ending and some languages seem to undo the contraction, but it's been tentatively reconstructed as Proto-Algonquian *o·te·weni 'village'.

Dave

I'd be interested to hear from Algonquianists whether the Algonquian term is reconstructible in that family.

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