zhaaganaash

Ojibwe

Etymology

• zh- (?)
• ᐋᑲᓈᐦᔥ (aaganaash), from French: Anglais (“English”)

Noun

zhaaganaash (plural: zhaaganaashag)

1. white person
2. English person
3. Irish person
4. Scottish person

Noun

zhaaganaash (ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔥ)

1. English
2. Erin
3. Scott

Derived terms

Independent compounds

• ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔑᐊᓇᒥᐋ (zhaaganaashi-anami'aa)
  • be a Protestant Christian
• ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔑᐊᓇᒥᐁᐎᓐ (zhaaganaashi-anami'ewin)
  • Anglican Christian
  • Episcopalian Christian
  • Methodist Christian
  • Protestantism
  • Wesleyan Christian

Synonyms

• ᑭᐦᒋᒨᐦᑯᒫᓂᒧ (gichi-mookomaan)
  • American
  • Virginian

Alternative forms

• ᐋᑲᓈᐦᔥ (aaganaash)
• ᐋᑲᓀᐦᔖ (aaganeshaa)
• ᓵᑲᓈᐦᔥ (zaaganaash)
• ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔑᐝ (zhaaganaashi)

See also

Other Syllabic forms

• Fully pointed mixed-finals: ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔥ
• Fully-pointed Eastern A-finals: ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔥ
• Common Eastern A-finals: ᔖᑲᓈᔥ
• Unpointed Eastern A-finals: ᔕᑲᓇᔥ

Other Roman orthographies

• Algonquin: jâganâc
  • Cuoq: jakanac
• Manitoba Saulteaux: šākanāhš
  • Ontario Saulteaux: shaakanaahsh
• Baraga:

References

• Freelang Electronic Ojibwe Dictionary

• "zhaaganaash" in A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language, Beauchemin & Valois, 1878.
• 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: 386a-06.0, 386a-07.0
• Richard A. Rhodes, Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa Dictionary. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 1985: 124-14.0