miigisapikan

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Ojibwe

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Etymology

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Noun

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miigisapikan (Canadian syllabics spelling ᒦᑭᐦᓴᐦᐱᐦᑲᓐ)

  1. wampum belt

Declension

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Other Syllabic forms:

  • Fully pointed mixed-finals: ᒦᑭᐦᓴᐦᐱᐦᑲᓐ
  • Fully-pointed Eastern A-finals: ᒦᑭᐦᓴᐦᐱᐦᑲᓐ
  • Common Eastern A-finals: ᒦᑭᓴᐱᑲᓐ
  • Unpointed Eastern A-finals: ᒥᑭᓴᐱᑲᓐ

Transformations

  • unaffected: miigisapikan
  • syncope: miigsapkan
  • initial change: maagisapikan
  • initial change syncope: maagsapkan
  • reduplication: maamiigisapikan
  • reduplication syncope: maamiigsapkan
  • initial change reduplication: mayaagisapikan
  • initial change reduplication syncope: myaagispikan

Other Roman orthographies

  • Algonquin: mìgisapikan
    • Cuoq: migisapikan
  • Manitoba Saulteaux: mīkihsahpihkan
    • Ontario Saulteaux: miikihsahpihkan
  • Baraga: migissâpikan

References

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  • Freelang Electronic Ojibwe Dictionary
  • "miigisapikan" in A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language, Beauchemin & Valois, 1878.: B0234
  • Jean André Cuoq, Lexique de la Langue Algonquine. Montréal, J. Chapleau & Fils, 1886
  • John D. Nichols and Earl Nyholm, A Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1995
  • Richard A. Rhodes, Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa Dictionary. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 1985