Cultural Awareness Translation of ‘teacher’
Morphemes (building blocks of each word):
- g…knoo ~ “know, recognize”
- …e…d ~ “someone who…”
- h ~ “cause someone to be or to act”
- maa ~ “do it for someone”
- ge ~ “acts (on an unspecified object)”
A rough translation of the inner-meaning:
- someone who causes knowing in people
A plainer, more free-form, inner-meaning translation:
- someone who teaches
Montano, J. P. “Facilitating Cultural Awareness with Biigtigong’s Dialect” biigtigong.com. Biigtigong Nishnaabeg, 21 Jun 2018. Web.