manidoo
English
Noun
manidoo (plural manidoos or manidoog)
- Alternative form of manitou
Ojibwe
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Algonquian *maneto·wa (“supernatural being”).
Noun
manidoo (plural manidoog)
- spirit
- manitou
- god
Synonyms
- jiibay (plural jiibayag)
Derived terms
- gichi-manidoo: Great Spirit, God
- gichi-manidoo-giizis (plural: gichi-manidoo-giizisoog): January
- manidoo-biiwaabik (plural: manidoo-biiwaabikoon): steel; magnet
- manidoons (plural: manidoonsag): (diminutive) little spirit; insect
- manidoowi (animate, intransitive): he is a spirit
- niizh manidoowag: two-spirit