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Ojibwe
Etymology
From mazinaʼ- (“buy it on credit”) + -gan
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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Looking at the word parts and based on this term it seems that mazina'an originally meant something like "write it down", like ozhibii'an does now. If anyone can confirmed this, I'd be much obliged”
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Noun
mazinaʼigan inan (plural mazinaʼiganan, diminutive mazinaʼigaans, mazinaʼiganens)
- book
- paper
- document
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