Ojibwe edit

Etymology edit

Verb edit

zhiishiigwe (animate intransitive)

  1. (intransitive) rattles

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

Noun edit

zhiishiigwe

  1. rattlesnake

Synonyms edit

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Transformations
  • Unaffected: ᔒᐦᔒᐝᑴ (zhiishiigwe)
  • Initial change: ᔖᐦᔒᐝᑴ (zhaashiigwe)
  • Reduplication: ᔖᔒᐦᔒᐝᑴ (zhaazhiishiigwe)
  • Initial change reduplication: ᔕᐦᔮᔒᐦᔒᐝᑴ (zhayaazhiishiigwe)
    • Initial change reduplication with syncope: ᔥᐦᔮᔒᐦᔒᐝᑴ (zhyaazhiishiigwe)
Other Syllabic forms
  • Fully pointed mixed-finals: ᔒᐦᔒᐝᑴ
  • Fully-pointed Eastern A-finals: ᔒᐦᔒᑴ
  • Common Eastern A-finals: ᔒᔒᑴ
  • Unpointed Eastern A-finals: ᔑᔑᑴ

References edit

  • Freelang Electronic Ojibwe Dictionary
  • "zhiishiigwe" in A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language, Beauchemin & Valois, 1878.: 1-206a, 2-174b
  • Jean André Cuoq, Lexique de la Langue Algonquine. Montréal, J. Chapleau & Fils, 1886: 087a
  • John D. Nichols and Earl Nyholm, A Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1995: 127a-25.0, 234a-02.0
  • Richard A. Rhodes, Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa Dictionary. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 1985