Art-related Terms – ‘Imagination’
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]”
- o ~ [connector]
- win ~ [nominalizer], “-ness”
A translation of the morphemes:
- image-acting–on-it-by-thought—ness; image-perceiving–it-by-thought—ness
A formal-English translation:
- imagination
Montano, J. P. “Art-related Terms in Biigtigong’s Dialect” biigtigong.com. Biigtigong Nishnaabeg, 3 May 2019. Web.