Etymograph

English

Nishnaabemwin

Nishnaabemwin comes from Ottawa Nishnaabemwin.

  1. OttawamodernNishnaabemwin
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2019same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. OttawamodernNishnaabemwin
  2. Englishearliest quotation 2019same form

Earliest quotation: 2019, Zoe Tennant: “When Nipissing author Jenny Kay Dupuis co-wrote I Am…”

Today it means

name The variants of Nishnaabemwin that use this form of the word (which are spoken with vowel syncope), spoken in southern Ontario, around Lake Huron, primarily Odawa, Eastern Ojibwe and Nipissing.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Ottawa Nishnaabemwin / Nishnaabemwin