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Ojibwe
Etymology
Noun
miigisapikan (Canadian syllabics spelling ᒦᑭᐦᓴᐦᐱᐦᑲᓐ)
- wampum belt
Declension
Other Syllabic forms:
- Fully pointed mixed-finals: ᒦᑭᐦᓴᐦᐱᐦᑲᓐ
- Fully-pointed Eastern A-finals: ᒦᑭᐦᓴᐦᐱᐦᑲᓐ
- Common Eastern A-finals: ᒦᑭᓴᐱᑲᓐ
- Unpointed Eastern A-finals: ᒥᑭᓴᐱᑲᓐ
Transformations
- unaffected: miigisapikan
- syncope: miigsapkan
- initial change: maagisapikan
- initial change syncope: maagsapkan
- reduplication: maamiigisapikan
- reduplication syncope: maamiigsapkan
- initial change reduplication: mayaagisapikan
- initial change reduplication syncope: myaagispikan
Other Roman orthographies
- Algonquin: mìgisapikan
- Manitoba Saulteaux: mīkihsahpihkan
- Ontario Saulteaux: miikihsahpihkan
- Baraga: migissâpikan
References
- Freelang Electronic Ojibwe Dictionary
- "miigisapikan" in A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language, Beauchemin & Valois, 1878.: B0234
- 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