zhaaganaash

Ojibwe

Etymology

• zh- perhaps from the "z" sound (liaison) in les Anglais (map L-194)
• ᐋᑲᓈᐦᔥ (aaganaash), from French Anglais (“English”)

Noun

zhaaganaash (plural zhaaganaashag)

1. white person
2. English person
3. Irish person
4. Scottish person

Noun

zhaaganaash (ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔥ)

1. English language
2. Irish language
3. Scots language

Alternative forms

• ᐋᑲᓈᐦᔥ (aaganaash)
• ᐋᑲᓀᐦᔖ (aaganeshaa)
• ᓵᑲᓈᐦᔥ (zaaganaash)
• ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔑᐝ (zhaaganaashi)

Synonyms

• ᑭᐦᒋᒨᐦᑯᒫᓂᒧ (gichi-mookomaan)
  • American
  • Virginian

Derived terms

Independent compounds:

• ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔑᐊᓇᒥᐋ (zhaaganaashi-anami'aa)
  • be a Protestant Christian
• ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔑᐊᓇᒥᐁᐎᓐ (zhaaganaashi-anami'ewin)
  • Anglican Christian
  • Episcopalian Christian
  • Methodist Christian
  • Protestantism
  • Wesleyan Christian

See also

Other Syllabic forms

• Fully pointed mixed-finals: ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔥ
• Fully-pointed Eastern A-finals: ᔖᑲᓈᐦᔥ
• Common Eastern A-finals: ᔖᑲᓈᔥ
• Unpointed Eastern A-finals: ᔕᑲᓇᔥ

Other Roman orthographies

• Algonquin: jâganâc
  • Cuoq: jakanac
• Manitoba Saulteaux: šākanāhš
  • Ontario Saulteaux: shaakanaahsh
• Baraga:

References

• Freelang Electronic Ojibwe Dictionary
• "zhaaganaash" 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: 386a-06.0, 386a-07.0
• Richard A. Rhodes, Eastern Ojibwa-Chippewa-Ottawa Dictionary. Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter, 1985: 124-14.0