Cultural Awareness Translation of ‘office’
Morphemes (building blocks of each word):
- wzhi ~ “arrange”, “form”
- biih ~ “act on it by writing”
- ge ~ “acts (on an unspecified object)”
- wgamig ~ “built structure”, “quarters”
A rough translation of the inner-meaning:
- arrange-it-by-writing quarters, form-it-by-writing quarters
A plainer, more free-form, inner-meaning translation:
- writing quarters
Montano, J. P. “Facilitating Cultural Awareness with Biigtigong’s Dialect” biigtigong.com. Biigtigong Nishnaabeg, 21 Jun 2018. Web.