odaawaa

Ojibwe

Etymology

Cognate to Eastern Ojibwa/Ottawa daawaa and Potawatomi wdawa. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

odaawaa anim (plural odaawaag)

1. an Odawa/Ottawa
2. a trader

Derived terms

• odaawaakwe (“Odawa woman”)
• odaawaa-minis (“Manitoulin Island”)
• odaawaamo (“S/he speaks Odawa”)
  • odaawaamowin (“the Odawa language”)
• odaawaa-zaaga'igan (“Lac Courte Oreilles”)

Related terms

• adaawe

Descendants

• → English: Ottawa, Odawa, Odaawaa, Ottowa
  • → French: Ottawa
  • → Japanese: オタワ
  • → Russian: Оттава (Ottava)
    • → Armenian: Օտտավա (Ōttava)

References

• The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/odaawaa-na
• 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