biinchige

Definition: do cleaning, clean up

biinchige
>vai comm.
>1sIND nbiinchige;
>3sCCONJ baanchiget; 1 do cleaning, clean up. Gchi-nokii aw mdimooyenh biinchiged maa gaawtaagmig.
>That old woman works hard cleaning up all over the house. AM1937.rs. Naasaab wayaabishkiiwejig ezhi-biinichigewaad mii ezhi-ayaad.
>She does cleaning the way the white women do it. AW1941.rn. Weweni biinchigek jibwaa-maajaayek; ga-moozhgin'gem, ga-gziinaagnem.
>Clean up thoroughly before you leave; you pick things up, you wash the dishes. MC2005.cs.
>Full-vowel form: biinichige.

Languages: Nishnaabemwin (Odawa/Eastern Ojibwe)
Part of speech: Verb Animate intransitive verb
Source of term: Mary Ann Corbiere and Rand Valentine, Dictionary of Nishnabewin Database, publication pending (2015).
Unique ID: n72977281507n
GKS Reference Number: 12547
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