English
Menominee
Menominee comes from Ojibwe manoominii.
- Ojibwemodernmanoominiiliterally ‘wild-rice people’
- EnglishtodayMenominee
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Ojibwemodernmanoominiiliterally ‘wild-rice people’
- EnglishtodayMenominee
The story
Borrowed from Ojibwe manoominii (literally “wild-rice people”); from Ojibwe manoomin.
Every English word from Ojibwe manoominii
Today it means
noun A member of a nation of Native Americans indigenous to what is now Wisconsin.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ojibwe manoominii / Menominee