Nishnaabemwin

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. Alternative form of Anishinaabemowin: The macrolanguage spoken by the Nishnaabe (Ojibwe, Nipissing, Algonquins, Odawa, and Potawatomi).
  2. The variants of Nishnaabemwin that use this form of the word (which are spoken with vowel syncope), spoken in southern Ontario, around Lake Huron, primarily Odawa, Eastern Ojibwe and Nipissing.

Word forms

Nishnaabemwin

Etymology

Borrowed from Eastern Ojibwa and Ottawa Nishnaabemwin.

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