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wiiweginan vti lw
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wrap it (as or as with something sheet-like)

Paired with: wiiwegin vta



niwiiweginaan 1s - 0s ind; owiiweginaan 3s - 0s ind; wiiweginang 3s - 0 conj; waaweginang 3s - 0 ch-conj; wiiweginan 2s - 0 imp; Stem: /wiiwegin-/

niwiiweginaan1s - 0s ind rg
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owiiweginaan3s - 0s ind es
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lw
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wiiweginang3s - 0 conj rg
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es
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waaweginang3s - 0 ch-conj rg
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es
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wiiweginan 2s - 0 imp es
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lw
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Aaniin wenji-wiiweginaman iniw mazina'iganan.

Why are you wrapping the books?
 rg
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Niwiiweginaanan ini mazina'iganan wii-miigiweyaan.

I'm wrapping the books to give them away.
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wiiweginan /wiiwegin-/: /wiiw-/
wrap
; /-eg-/
sheet-like (two-dimensional flexible objects of material such as bark, hide/skin, cloth, and paper)
; /-in/
act on it by hand

The Ojibwe People's Dictionary is developed and maintained by:
Nora Livesay, Editor
John D. Nichols, Founder and Linguistic Editor

with support and collaboration from the University of Minnesota's Department of American Indian Studies and University Libraries.

Word Family

wiiweginan vti wrap it (as or as with something sheet-like)
(detransitive) wiiweginige vai s/he wraps (things) (benefactive) wiiweginamaw vta wrap (it) for h/ (verb of undergoing) wiiweginigaade vii it is wrapped (by someone), "they" wrap it (verb of undergoing) wiiweginigaazo vai s/he or it (animate) is wrapped (by someone), "they" wrap h/ or it (animate) (derived noun) wiiweginigan ni a wrapped package or pack

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