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Ojibwe
Etymology
ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔥ (zhaaganaash) + -y (“diminutive suffix”)
Noun
zhaaganaashi (plural zhaaganaashiwag)
- English person
- Irish person
- Scottish person
Proper noun
zhaaganaashi
- English
- Erin
- Scott
Synonyms
Derived terms
- Independent compounds
- ᔖᑲᓈᔑᐝᐃᒣᐦᑲᑌᐎᑾᓇᐦᔦ (zhaaganaashii-mekadewikwanaye)
- Dependent compounds
- ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔒᐝᔾ (zhaaganaashiinh)
- ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔒᐝᓐᐦᔅ (zhaaganaashiins)
- Other Syllabic forms
- Fully pointed mixed-finals: ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔑᐝ
- Fully-pointed Eastern A-finals: ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔑ
- Common Eastern A-finals: ᔖᑲᓈᔑ
- Unpointed Eastern A-finals: ᔕᑲᓇᔑ
References
- Freelang Electronic Ojibwe Dictionary
- "zhaaganaashi" 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 124-14.2
- Richard A. Rhodes, Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa Dictionary. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 1985