Talk:A-senee-ki-wakw

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• Why did Gluskab create them?
• What purpose do the A-senee-ki-wakw serve?
• Based on the Anishinaabe language, I assume "A-senee-ki-wakw" is plural and "A-senee-ki" or "A-senee-kiw" is the singular (c.f. Ojibwe: Asiniikii(-g)/Asiniki(-wag)), but please confirm, since this is only an assumption.
• Are/Is the A-senee-ki-wakw what the Eastern Abenaki (such as the Maliseet) call "Cinu"?
• Citation?
• Any "Further readings" list?

CJLippert 23:53, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

Since the Proto-Algonquian animate plural suffix was *-aki, I'd be surprising if Abenaki got a -w added on there for some reason...so I'm unsure if -(w)akw is a plural ending. I don't know either, though. --Miskwito 00:36, 27 March 2007 (UTC)