Art-related Terms – ‘Something Imagined, Someone Imagined’
Art-related term in Biigtigong’s dialect of Nishnaabemwin:
- mzinenjgan
Morphemes (building blocks of each word):
- mzin ~ “fancy, figured, image”
- enj ~ “act by thought on it, perceive it by thought”
- gan ~ “[nominalizer]”
A translation of the morphemes:
- image-acting–on-it-by-thought—thing, image-acting–on-it-by-thought—being
A formal-English translation:
- something imagined, someone imagined
Montano, J. P. “Art-related Terms in Biigtigong’s Dialect” biigtigong.com. Biigtigong Nishnaabeg, 3 May 2019. Web.