bebkaan

Definition: different, individually, separately, in different places, in separate places

bebkaan
>av comm. 1 different, individually, separately, in different places, in separate places. Bebkaan gonda gii-zhi-ggwejmaawag.
>They were questioned separately, you see. SO1971.rs. Kina bebkaan nankiiwag Nishnaabeg wii-debnamwaad zhoon'yaa.
>All the Indians do one or another kind of work to earn money. AM1937.rs. Bebkaan ngii-sigoomi wii-gbeshyaang; naamsak genii oodi, shpiming dash gewii nshiimenh.
>We were put in separate places to sleep; me down there in the basement, my little sister upstairs. MC2005.cs.
>Full-vowel form: bebakaan.

Languages: Nishnaabemwin (Odawa/Eastern Ojibwe)
Part of speech: Adverb
Source of term: Mary Ann Corbiere and Rand Valentine, Dictionary of Nishnabewin Database, publication pending (2015).
Unique ID: n72976544245n
GKS Reference Number: 11992
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