miʼiingan

Ojibwe

Alternative forms
  • miyʼiingan
  • maʼiingan

Etymology

From the preverb mayagi- (“strange, foreign, exotic”). Literally "the strange one".

Noun

miʼiingan (plural maʼiinganag)

  1. wolf (Canis Lupus)
    Ngii waabmaa maʼiingan nongom
    I saw a wolf today
  • maʼiingaans, ma'iinganens (little wolf)

References
  • John D. Nichols, Earl Nyholm, A Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe (University of Minnesota Press, 1995) (p 75, 285)
  • Irene Snache, Rama First Nation Ojibwe Language Dictionary (Mnjikaning Kendaaswin Publishers, 2005) (p 198)
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