wôkwses

Abenaki

Noun

wôkwses

1. fox

References

• Joseph Laurent (1884) New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues: The First Ever Published on the Grammatical System, page 36
• 1904, John Dyneley Prince, Frank Gouldsmith Speck, Glossary of the Mohegan-Pequot Language, page 44:

  WUNX fox (wŭnks) = Stiles awaumps; N. wonkqussis; Abn. wôkwses.

• 2014 July 29, Jeanne Morningstar Kent, The Visual Language of Wabanaki Art, Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 36:

  FOX (wôkwses) The fox is illustrated as a stylized version of the animal.