Boozhoo miinawaa! You know, I was thinking about the ideas I mentioned in my last message. If anyone wants to try them and they work, I'd still like 10%...
Boozhoo, giin! Gidanamikoon, niin. Sometimes people forget what writing is all about: some people decide that this letter or that will represent such and...
Boozhoo! Please help with these words if you can: Basil Johnston uses the following spellings in his books: 1) mizauwabeekum (mizauwabeekummoowuk) 2)...
Can someone help me out on the name of the 12 solar months in Anishininiimowin (Oji-cree)? {??} = January gizhe-biisim = February migiziwi-biisim = March ...
I know copper as miskwaabik. but i couldn't think of how it would work. I was thinking miskwaabikoons but then I remembered that was 'penny'. I think... Anne...
Boozhoo! I have just about completed the Pimsleur Essential Ojibwe I course, and I am not sure what the next step should be. Does anyone know if there are any...
I have downloaded the freelang Ojibwa dictionary and have noticed that the Anishinabe word for the Miami is Maame. My question has to deal with the river in...
Copper is miskwaabik, literally, red-mineral. However, any red-coloured mineral can be described as such. However, ozaawaabik can describe both copper or...
Upon reflection of your posting name, hmmnn....anyhoo, why not just ask your gf? Certainly considering another language whether in love or not, it is...
I admit to curiosity with that as well, There are 12 on the moon-dial in the photo archive but we didn't go by the European solar callender, so what is the...
In a word, no. Maamewi-ziibi = Maa-me-wi-zii-bi The Miami Tribe in Odaawaa is "Maame" but the Miami Tribe called themselves "Mayaamay"... same root, but while...
Closest word I know of that resembles that word is "misawenimaan," meaning "he/she desires someone else", the (vta; 3s > 3') form of misawenim: covet SB, yearn...
Because I am compelled to look like a goon in public, you folks realize the Anishinaabe calendars is labeled according to seasonal events, and what is a sucker...
About the Wendat. I assume that they are the Wyandot who originally lived in southern Ontario. You say that they actually lived along the shores of Lake...
Yes, which is why I asked about lunar month names, which often were applied to the solar month names, as the *functionality* determined the name. Same...
Hello again, I'm wondering if anyone here knows the etymology of the name "Chakenapok"? It's the name of a figure from Ojibwa belief, the "Flint" and brother...
Boozhoo... There was a really interesting piece on a show called Ancestors in the Attic about an Ojibwa Soldier in W.W.I. In the show he leaves a written...
Based on the Plains and Swampy Cree word "cahkisêhikan" (flint) both Hodges and Baraga cites, if the words were identical in Ojibwe, I would have expected...
Freelang Ojibwe modules were updated as of December 20. Freelang's website can be accessed by the banner near the top of the main page for OLS-Miinawaa. The...
Maybe the etymology of "jaaginebik" is: * jaag- (pv): consume-, use-up-, deplete-, spend- * ginebig+oog (na): snake as the birth of "Chakenapok" spent the life...
A new resource for any one interested. Rather clever. Mazainaate Press just published an Inuktitut phrase book as well. Patricia Ningewance Nadeau has...
We have the particle "enigok" meaning "again; with effort; fast; forcefully; try harder; loud(ly); with might; more; much; strongly"... depending on the...
Aaniin, ingiisaadendam niibowa: this is going to be a bit of rather technical stuff. Note that CDMO also has enigok, which would rather be *enigwak if it were...
miigwech Kees, but I was trying to ask a question without directly asking the question and it didn't work. So, the direct question is "what does 'inigod'...
I have the following forms for "five kinds / five choices / five instances": Algonquin: naanwayag Oji-Cree: naanwayeg Northwestern Ojibwe: naanwewig but how...
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