Joseph Laurent, New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues (1884)
↑ A Tale in the Hudson River Indian Language, in the American Anthropologist, volume 7 (1905), page 79
Etymology
John Dyneley Prince speculated in 1905 that this term and the Mahican term ph·ánam (his spelling, corresponding to /phanam/, which he compares to De Forest's p'ghainoom) may be "connected by metathesis with" the same root from which squaw derives (which is Proto-Algonquian*eθkwe·wa(“(young) woman”)). Prince wrote "I think p-h· in ph·ánam is a metathesis of k(p)-w(h)".[1]