PC mamāhtāwan, to be amazing or wondrous; to be spiritually powerful; MC mamāhtāwelihtākwan, to be considered marvelous or wondrous; mamāhtāwasinātew, to be decorated with fancy motifs, to be fancily marked; SEC māmāhtāwātisīw, to have supernatural powers; NEC mimāhtāusīu, to be amazing, to do amazing things; mimāhtāunākun, to be decorated, to look fancy; WI (Pessamit) matauapeu [mātāwāpēw], to weave designs into the snowshoe netting; Watkins (1865) "Mútaminuk, n.an. pl. Indian corn, maize;" Laure (ca. 1726) "tchi-mamatauassinaten, tu chamarres, tu couvres de différentes couleurs, ton habit, ton bonnet;" "matamin -ets, blé d'inde;" Silvy (ca. 1680) "ni mamataȣeriten, je m'étonne, je crains"
ANISH mamaandaawizi, to perform wonders; mandaamin, a kernel of corn (Livesay & Nichols, 2021)
Other than the Old Cree name for "maize," *mahtāmina, corroborative evidence in the contemporary and history record overwhelmingly supports the reconstruction of the reduplicated form *mamāhtāw. See Pentland (1981) for a discussion on the relation between this root and the PA word *manetōwa.