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Ojibwe
Etymology
Noun
zhiishiibens
- small duck (aquatic animal)
- small teal (duck)
- duckling
- Transformations
- ᔒᐦᔒᐯᓐᐦᔅ (zhiishiibens) unaffected
- ᔖᐦᔒᐯᓐᐦᔅ (zhaashiibens) initial change
- ᔖᔒᐦᔒᐯᓐᐦᔅ (zhaazhiishiibens) reduplication
- ᔕᐦᔮᐦᔒᐯᓐᐦᔅ (zhayaazhiishiibens) initial change reduplication
- ᔥᐦᔮᐦᔒᐯᓐᐦᔅ (zhyaazhiishiibens) initial change reduplication with syncope
- Other Syllabic forms
- Fully pointed mixed-finals: ᔒᐦᔒᐯᓐᐦᔅ
- Fully-pointed Eastern A-finals: ᔒᐦᔒᐯᓐᐦᔅ
- Common Eastern A-finals: ᔒᔒᐯᓐᔅ
- Unpointed Eastern A-finals: ᔑᔑᐯᔅ
References
- Nichols & Nyholm: 127a-18.2
- Freelang Electronic Ojibwe Dictionary
- Baraga, Frederic. 1878. A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language, explained in English. Montréal: Beauchemin & Valois.
- Cuoq, Joseph. 1886. Lexique de la Langue Algonquine. Montréal: J. Chapleau & Fils.
- Nichols, John D. and Earl Nyholm. 1995. A Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
- Rhodes, Richard A. 1985. Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa Dictionary. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.