miigisapikan

Ojibwe

Etymology

• miigis
• apikan (ni)

Noun

miigisapikan (Canadian syllabics spelling ᒦᑭᐦᓴᐦᐱᐦᑲᓐ)

1. wampum belt

Declension

• plural: miigisapikanan (ᒦᑭᐦᓴᐦᐱᐦᑲᓇᓐ)
• diminutive: miigisapikaans (ᒦᑭᐦᓴᐦᐱᐦᑳᓐᐦᔅ)
• contemplitive: miigisapikaanh (ᒦᑭᐦᓴᐦᐱᐦᑳᔾ)

Other Syllabic forms:

• Fully pointed mixed-finals: ᒦᑭᐦᓴᐦᐱᐦᑲᓐ
• Fully-pointed Eastern A-finals: ᒦᑭᐦᓴᐦᐱᐦᑲᓐ
• Common Eastern A-finals: ᒦᑭᓴᐱᑲᓐ
• Unpointed Eastern A-finals: ᒥᑭᓴᐱᑲᓐ

Transformations

• unaffected: miigisapikan
• syncope: miigsapkan
• initial change: maagisapikan
• initial change syncope: maagsapkan
• reduplication: maamiigisapikan
• reduplication syncope: maamiigsapkan
• initial change reduplication: mayaagisapikan
• initial change reduplication syncope: myaagispikan

Other Roman orthographies

• Algonquin: mìgisapikan
  • Cuoq: migisapikan
• Manitoba Saulteaux: mīkihsahpihkan
  • Ontario Saulteaux: miikihsahpihkan
• Baraga: migissâpikan

References

• Freelang Electronic Ojibwe Dictionary
• "miigisapikan" in A Dictionary of the Otchipwe Language, Beauchemin & Valois, 1878.: B0234
• 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