Cultural Awareness Translation of ‘mathematics’
Translation into Biigtigong’s dialect of Nishnaabemwin:
- dshiwni-nawendiwin
Morphemes (building blocks of each word):
- dshiwni- ~ “quantity-ness”
- dsh ~ “so many”, “a certain number”
- i ~ “be a certain number”
- wn ~ [noun-forming final]
- i ~ [prenoun connector]
- nawendiwin ~ “inter-relatedness”
- nawe(nd) ~ “is related to another”
- ndi ~ [reciprocal]
- win ~ [noun-forming final]
A rough translation of the inner-meaning:
- quantity-ness−−inter-relatedness
A plainer, more free-form, inner-meaning translation:
- relations between quantities
Montano, J. P. “Facilitating Cultural Awareness with Biigtigong’s Dialect” biigtigong.com. Biigtigong Nishnaabeg, 21 Jun 2018. Web.