odaawaa

Ojibwe

Etymology

• w-, third person animate prefix
• adaawe, "to trade"
• -e- (verb) to -aa- (noun) transform
• reduction of wa- to o-

Proper noun

odaawaa (plural odaawaag)

1. Ottawa person
2. Ottawa man
3. Trader

Derived terms

• odaawaakwe (plural: odaawaakweg)

  Ottawa woman

• odaawaa-minis (locative: odaawaa-minising)

  Manitoulin Island, Ontario

• odaawaamowin (plural: odaawaamowinan)

  Ottawa speech

  Ottawa language

  Ottawa dialect of Anishinaabemowin

• odaawaa-zaaga'igan (locative: odaawaa-zaaga'iganiing)

  Lac Courte Oreilles, Wisconsin

References

• Freelang Electronic Ojibwe Dictionary
• "odaawaa" 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