bkweyaashi

Definition: be broken off [by the wind]

bkweyaashi
>vai
>3sCCONJ bekweyaashit; 1 be broken off [by the wind]. (of ice) Mii sa giiyenh bekweyaashit wa mkom gii-maajii-taakmigwaashkniwaat, mii'sh maaba kewenziinh gaawii gii-de-dkamgwaashkni-sii giiyenh.
>And so when a piece of the ice was broken off by the wind, they started jumping across, and so this old man wasn't able to jump across in time. MC2005.cs.
>Full-vowel form: bakweyaashi.

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: n73035541198n
GKS Reference Number: 13000
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