What is the Algonquin word for windy?

Answer 1

There is a popular legend circulating on the internet about the origin of the name Moose Hill, Massachusetts - that it may derive from the supposed "Algonguin" term moosiap, alleged to mean a windy place. This legend is unlikely to contain even a grain of truth. For one thing, the Algonquin or Algonkin are a Canadian tribe who have never lived in Massachusetts.

There are various terms in the many AlgonquiAn languages for [it is] windy:

Mahican..................sâxen or kshaxen

Ojibwe....................noonin

Algonkin..................nonin

Shawnee.................mes-sich-con-ne

Abenaki...................gzelômsen

Mohegan.................wápáyu-

Powhatan................kikithamots

None of these has any similarity to moosiap.

In Mahican the word for a hill is wujew and place names end in the locative suffix -eg, so in theory *wujew-sâxen-eg would mean "hill-windy-at".

Answer 2

I guess you mean the language of the Algonkin tribe of Canada, properly known as Anishinàbemowin. It is considered to be a dialect of Ojibwe.

In this language nodin = it is windy; Algonkin regularly uses a verb form instead of an adjective.