Reimagining the Role of ‘Janitor’
Reimagined role-name in Biigtigong’s dialect of Nishnaabemwin:
- Gaa-biinchiged
Morphemes (building blocks of each word):
- Gaa-…d ~ “someone who…”
- biin ~ “clean”
- chige ~ “someone acts (on an unspecified object)”
A translation of the morphemes:
- someone-who-cleans-things
A plainer, more free-form English translation:
- janitor
A formal-English translation:
- Janitor
Montano, J. P., & Michano, A. R. “Reimagining Health Centre Roles in Biigtigong Nishnaabemwin” biigtigong.com. Biigtigong Nishnaabeg, 14 Jul 2017. Web.