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ninoshenh nad es
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my aunt (parallel aunt: mother's sister); my stepmother

Note:
Someone's mother's sister and their father's sister are both called aunt in English but in Anishinaabemowin they are called by different words. The mother's sister is a parallel aunt. There is no simple independent word for this kind of aunt, a parallel aunt (a mother's sister). This term is also used for stepmother. A personal prefix goes with the dependent noun stem /=nosheny-/ parallel aunt to make a full word: 
  • ninoshenh my parallel aunt (1s-3s)
  • ginoshenh your parallel aunt (2s-3s)
  • onoshenyan h/ parallel aunt
  • [MN] onoshenyan h/ parallel aunt / parallel aunts (3s-3')
  • [BL] onoshenyan h/ parallel aunt (3s-3's)
  • [BL] onoshenya’ h/ parallel aunts (3s-3'p)Some basic forms of 
ninoshenh my parallel aunt are: 



ninoshenh sg; ninoshenyag pl; Stem: /=nosheny-/

ninoshenh sg gh
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es
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ninoshenyag pl gh
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es
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Nindinawaa nindigoo, ninoshenh, nimaamaa oshiimenyan.

They say I look like my aunt, my mother's younger sister.
 nj
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Word Family

=nosheny- nad STEM FOR: aunt (parallel aunt: mother's sister); STEM FOR: stepmother
ninoshenh nad my aunt (parallel aunt: mother's sister); my stepmother ginoshenh nad your aunt (parallel aunt: mother's sister); your stepmother onoshenyan nad h/ aunt (parallel aunt: mother's sister); h/ stepmother

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