Cultural Awareness Translation of ‘[Nishnaabe] elder’
Translation into Biigtigong’s dialect of Nishnaabemwin:
- gchi-nishnaabe
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Morphemes (building blocks of each word):
- gchi- ~ “great”, “quite”
- nishnaabe ~ “Ojibway person, Odawa person, Potawatomi person”
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A rough translation of the inner-meaning:
- great-nishnaabe, quite-nishnaabe
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A plainer, more free-form, inner-meaning translation:
- Nishnaabe elder
How to cite this publication:
Montano, J. P. “Facilitating Cultural Awareness with Biigtigong’s Dialect” biigtigong.com. Biigtigong Nishnaabeg, 21 Jun 2018. Web.
