boonii

Definition: alight, land

boonii
>vai comm.
>1sIND nboonii;
>3sCCONJ e-booniit; 1 alight, land. (of birds and planes) Gii-boonii dash maa ddibew mtigoonskaanig.
>She alighted in a clump of bushes there by the river bank. AM1937.rs. Gtigaaning gii-boonii wa mbaasjigaans.
>That [small] plane landed in the field. MC2005.cs.
>Full-vowel form: boonii.

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: n72980952826n
GKS Reference Number: 13430
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