Ojibwe edit

Etymology edit

Verb edit

aabaʼ (transitive animate)

  1. loosen
  2. undo
  3. unharness
  4. unswaddle
  5. untie

References edit

  • Freelang Electronic Ojibwe Dictionary
  • "aabaʼ" 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
  • Richard A. Rhodes, Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa Dictionary. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 1985