Art-related Terms – ‘Art’
Art-related term in Biigtigong’s dialect of Nishnaabemwin:
- mzinendmookaajgewin
Morphemes (building blocks of each word):
- mzin ~ “fancy, figured, image”
- end ~ “act by thought on it, perceive it by thought”
- (a)m ~ [makes the preceding term a VAI2 verb]
- oo ~ [connector]
- kaa ~ “s/he makes, s/he produces, s/he gathers”
- j ~ “act on it”
- ge ~ “s/he acts (on an unspecified object)”
- win ~ [nominalizer], “-ness”
A translation of the morphemes:
- making-it-by–imagine-acting–on-it—ness.
A formal-English translation:
- art
Montano, J. P. “Art-related Terms in Biigtigong’s Dialect” biigtigong.com. Biigtigong Nishnaabeg, 3 May 2019. Web.