Translation into Biigtigong’s dialect of Nishnaabemwin:

• mzin’hignan gaa-gnawendmaaged

mzin’hignan gaa-gnawendmaaged ~ librarian

Morphemes (building blocks of each word):

• mzin’hignan ~ “books”
  • mzin ~ “image”, “figured”
  • h ~ “act on it using a tool”, “act on it using a medium”
  • ign ~ “a made thing”, [nominalizer]
  • an ~ [inanimate plural]
• gaa-gnawendmaaged ~ “someone who takes care of something for people”
  • gaa-…d ~ “”
  • gnaw ~ “care, attend”
  • end ~ “act by thought on it”
  • maa ~ “do it for someone”
  • ge ~ “someone acts (on an unspecified object)”

A rough translation of the inner-meaning:

• someone who takes care of acting-on-it-with-image−−things for people

A plainer, more free-form, inner-meaning translation:

• someone who takes care of books for the people