different between snowshoe vs babiche

English

Etymology

snow +? shoe

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?sno??u/

Noun

snowshoe (plural snowshoes)

1. A flat item of footwear worn to facilitate walking in deep snow.

Synonyms

• web (informal)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

snowshoe (third-person singular simple present snowshoes, present participle snowshoeing, simple past and past participle snowshoed)

1. (intransitive) To travel using snowshoes.

English

Etymology

First attested around 1800–10. From Canadian French, from Mi'kmaq ápapíj (“cord, thread”), diminutive of ápapi, from Proto-Algonquian *a?lapa·py, *a?lapa·pyi, from *a?lapy- (“net”) + *-a·py (“string”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??bi??/, /bæ?bi??/
• Hyphenation: ba?biche

Noun

babiche (plural babiches)

1. (Canada, US) Thong(s) of rawhide or sinew used as cord, lacing, or webbing, in the manufacture of snowshoes, braided straps and tumplines, fishing and harpoon lines, knit bags, etc.

See also

• Gadacz, René R. (2008). “Babiche”, in the Canadian Encyclopedia.

References

• “babiche” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• “babiche” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• “babiche” in The New Oxford American Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2005

French

Etymology

From Mi'kmaq ápapíj (“cord, thread”). See above.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.bi?/

Noun

babiche f (plural babiches)

1. babiche

Related terms

• babichon

Further reading

• “babiche” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).