boogijizh

Ojibwe

Alternative forms

• Algonquin:
  • Cuoq: pokotcic
• Manitoba Saulteaux: pōkiciš
  • Ontario Saulteaux: pookicish
• Baraga:

Etymology

• boogid/ᐴᑭᑦ
• -yiN- (vii to vta transformation suffix)
• transformation of terminal -N- to -zh

Verb

boogijizh (transitive animate) (ᐴᑭᒋᔥ)

1. to fart at somebody
2. to spray at somebody (as a skunk does)

Usage notes

In other dictionaries:

• Baraga:
• Cuoq:
• EOCOD: 078a-06.3
• CDMO:

Derived terms

Transformations

• unaffected: ᐴᑭᒋᔥ (boogijizh)
  • unaffected with syncope: ᐴ^ᑭᒋᔥ (boogjizh)
• initial change: ᑆᑭᒋᔥ (bwaagijizh)
  • initial change with syncope: ᑆ^ᑭᒋᔥ (bwaagjizh)
• reduplication: ᐹᐴᑭᒋᔥ (baaboogijizh)
  • reduplication with syncope: ᐹᐴ^ᑭᒋᔥ (baaboogijizh)
• initial change reduplication: ᐹᐹᐴᑭᒋᔥ (baabaaboogijizh)
  • initial change reduplication with syncope: ᐹᐹᐴ^ᑭᒋᔥ (baabaaboogijizh)

Other Syllabic forms

• Fully pointed mixed-finals: ᐴᑭᒋᔥ
• Fully-pointed Eastern A-finals: ᐴᑭᒋᔥ
• Common Eastern A-finals: ᐴᑭᒋᔥ
• Unpointed Eastern A-finals: ᐳᑭᒋᔥ

References

• Freelang Electronic Ojibwe Dictionary
• "boogijizh" 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
• Richard A. Rhodes, Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa Dictionary. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 1985