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Ojibwe
- Algonquin:
- Manitoba Saulteaux: pōkiciš
- Ontario Saulteaux: pookicish
- Baraga:
Etymology
- boogid/ᐴᑭᑦ
- -yiN- (vii to vta transformation suffix)
- transformation of terminal -N- to -zh
Verb
boogijizh (transitive animate) (ᐴᑭᒋᔥ)
- to fart at somebody
- to spray at somebody (as a skunk does)
Usage notes
In other dictionaries:
- Baraga:
- Cuoq:
- EOCOD: 078a-06.3
- CDMO:
Derived terms
Transformations
- unaffected: ᐴᑭᒋᔥ (boogijizh)
- unaffected with syncope: ᐴᑭᒋᔥ (boogjizh)
- initial change: ᑆᑭᒋᔥ (bwaagijizh)
- initial change with syncope: ᑆᑭᒋᔥ (bwaagjizh)
- reduplication: ᐹᐴᑭᒋᔥ (baaboogijizh)
- reduplication with syncope: ᐹᐴᑭᒋᔥ (baaboogijizh)
- initial change reduplication: ᐹᐹᐴᑭᒋᔥ (baabaaboogijizh)
- initial change reduplication with syncope: ᐹᐹᐴᑭᒋᔥ (baabaaboogijizh)
Other Syllabic forms
- Fully pointed mixed-finals: ᐴᑭᒋᔥ
- Fully-pointed Eastern A-finals: ᐴᑭᒋᔥ
- Common Eastern A-finals: ᐴᑭᒋᔥ
- Unpointed Eastern A-finals: ᐳᑭᒋᔥ
References
- Freelang Electronic Ojibwe Dictionary
- "boogijizh" in A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language, Beauchemin & Valois, 1878.
- Jean André Cuoq, Lexique de la Langue Algonquine. Montréal, J. Chapleau & Fils, 1886
- John D. Nichols and Earl Nyholm, A Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1995
- Richard A. Rhodes, Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa Dictionary. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 1985