English
Winnebago
Winnebago comes from Ojibwe wiinibiigoo ‘Winnebago person’.
- Ojibwemodernwiinibiigoo‘Winnebago person’
- Englishearliest quotation 1984Winnebago
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Ojibwemodernwiinibiigoo‘Winnebago person’
- Englishearliest quotation 1984Winnebago
Earliest quotation: 1984, Louise Erdrich, Love Medicine: “That is, we were buddies until those asshole Winnebagos…”
Every English word from Ojibwe wiinibiigoo
Today it means
noun Any of a Native American people of Wisconsin and Nebraska, now called Ho-Chunk.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Ojibwe wiinibiigoo / Winnebago