Cultural Awareness Translation of ‘school [building]’
Translation into Biigtigong’s dialect of Nishnaabemwin:
- gkinoohmaagewgamig
⇓
Morphemes (building blocks of each word):
- gkinoo ~ “know, recognize”
- h ~ “cause someone to be or to act”
- maa ~ “do it for someone”
- ge ~ “acts (on an unspecified object)”
- wgamig ~ “built structure”, “quarters”
⇓
A rough translation of the inner-meaning:
- causes-knowing quarters
⇓
A plainer, more free-form, inner-meaning translation:
- schooling quarters, schooling building
How to cite this publication:
Montano, J. P. “Facilitating Cultural Awareness with Biigtigong’s Dialect” biigtigong.com. Biigtigong Nishnaabeg, 21 Jun 2018. Web.
