zhaaganaashi

Ojibwe

Alternative forms

• ᐋᑲᓈᐦᔑᐝ (aaganaashi)

Etymology

ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔥ (zhaaganaash) +‎ -y (“diminutive suffix”)

Noun

zhaaganaashi (plural zhaaganaashiwag)

1. English person
2. Irish person
3. Scottish person

Proper noun

zhaaganaashi

1. English
2. Erin
3. Scott

Synonyms

• ᑭᐦᒋᒨᐦᑯᒫᓂᒧ (gichi-mookomaan)
  • American
  • Virginian

Derived terms

Independent compounds

• ᔖᑲᓈᔑᐝᐃᒣᐦᑲᑌᐎᑾᓇᐦᔦ (zhaaganaashii-mekadewikwanaye)
  • Protestant minister

Dependent compounds

• ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔑᐝᐃᐦᑴ (zhaaganaashiikwe)
  • White woman
  • English woman
  • Irish woman
  • Scottish woman
• ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔑᐝᐃᒧ (zhaaganaashiimo)
  • speak English
  • speak Canadian-English
• ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔑᐝᐃᐗᐦᑭ (Zhaaganaashiiwaki)
  • England
  • Great Britain
  • Canada
• ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔑᐝᐃᐎᐲᐊᒪᐤ (zhaaganaashiiwibii'amaw)
  • write ST to SB in English
• ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔑᐝᐃᐎᐲᐊᓐ (zhaaganaashiiwibii'an)
  • write ST in English
• ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔑᐝᐃᐎᐲᐄᑫ (zhaaganaashiiwibii'iige)
  • write in English

• 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