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)
- Ottawa person
- Ottawa man
- 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