Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WIG'WAM, n.

An Indian cabin or hut, so called in America. It is sometimes written weekwam. Mackenzie writes the Knisteneaux word, wigwaum, and the Algonquin, wiguiwaum. Query, is this the L. vicus? Vic in Roman was pronounced wic or week. These words may have been derived from one primitive root.