wigwam

(wĭgˈwŏmˌ)

nounWord History: English has adopted two words for Native American dwellings from languages in the Algonquian family. Both wigwam and wickiup come from the Algonquian root wik- (with a variant wig-), “to dwell,” to which suffixes are added. Wigwam comes from Abenaki wigwam (spelled various ways) and means “their dwelling”; wickiup comes from Fox dialect wikiyap or wikiyapi, “a dwelling, wigwam.”