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Ojibwe
Etymology
- zh- perhaps from the "z" sound (liaison) in les Anglais (map L-194) [1]
- ᐋᑲᓈᐦᔥ (aaganaash), from French Anglais (“English”)
Noun
zhaaganaash (plural zhaaganaashag)
- white person
- English person
- Irish person
- Scottish person
Noun
zhaaganaash (ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔥ)
- English language
- Irish language
- Scots language
Synonyms
Derived terms
Independent compounds:
- ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔑᐊᓇᒥᐋ (zhaaganaashi-anami'aa)
- be a Protestant Christian
- ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔑᐊᓇᒥᐁᐎᓐ (zhaaganaashi-anami'ewin)
- Anglican Christian
- Episcopalian Christian
- Methodist Christian
- Protestantism
- Wesleyan Christian
See also
- Other Syllabic forms
- Fully pointed mixed-finals: ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔥ
- Fully-pointed Eastern A-finals: ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔥ
- Common Eastern A-finals: ᔖᑲᓈᔥ
- Unpointed Eastern A-finals: ᔕᑲᓇᔥ
- Other Roman orthographies
References
- Freelang Electronic Ojibwe Dictionary
- "zhaaganaash" 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: 386a-06.0, 386a-07.0
- Richard A. Rhodes, Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa Dictionary. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 1985: 124-14.0