Cultural Awareness Translation of ‘kitchen’
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Morphemes (building blocks of each word):
- jiib(y) ~ “spirit”, “soul”
- aakwe ~ “process in the mouth”, “process in the kettle”
- wgamig ~ “built structure”, “quarters”
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A rough translation of the inner-meaning:
- spirit−−process-in-the-mouth quarters, spirit−−process-in-the-kettle quarters
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A plainer, more free-form, inner-meaning translation:
- spirit-processing (by mouth or in a kettle) quarters
How to cite this publication:
Montano, J. P. “Facilitating Cultural Awareness with Biigtigong’s Dialect” biigtigong.com. Biigtigong Nishnaabeg, 21 Jun 2018. Web.
