Knowledge Sharing Platform
Language Items
You can search the dictionaries in two ways. Enter an English term and then search for it in Anishnaabemowin, Cayuga or both languages (select "Any"). Or, select a letter to see the Anishinaabemowin and/or Cayuga terms beginning with that letter. "{" indicates a dependent noun - one that cannot appear without a pronoun.
organ
hurricane
clothespin
clothespin bag
pigeon hawk
pump (air)
tape recorder
Hanging Flower
flowers are planted
flower bed or planted flowers
blooming plant, flower
flowering plant
in the words, voice or in the speech
tape recorder, transcriber
slow marker
speech
tape recorder
spoken language
roadside weed or brush cutter
ice scattered
child born out of wedlock, foundling, illegitimate child
in the bag
bag, mattress, tick, pouch (ie. a mattress bag into which straw is
chief title
title holders, clan mothers
rights, laws, code
Canada Act (literally, the laws that govern us)
on the rights, laws, code
picture
ferret
AIDS
helpfulness
January (literally, month of the big dolls)
goat
goat shed
pictures
doll
the ability to think, thinking skills
the idea of thinking
movies, television
video store
Peach Pit Game
Peach Pit Dish game
flag
help
Cornplanter Reserve (place near Warren, Pennsylvania) (literally, where it is planted)
garden, it is planted (here)
produce (literally, new vegetables, fruit
tobacco worm
bacon
tobacco field
Moccasin Dance
Cayuga, Ontario
Cayuga people
fish tail
Avocet blue stocking (bird)
Old Moccasin Dance
hot dog (weiners or sausage on a bun)
hot dog (weiners or sausage on a bun)
in the basket
many different baskets
basket
on the basket
basketball
witch hazel
bushel basket
quiver
car, truck, vehicle
many, a variety of cars, trucks, vehicles
diaper
crow, raven
on my chest
slip, skirt
bee
marriage
the mind
harmony, of good mind
stitch ripper
Grinding the Arrow (forbidden ceremony)
arrow
elephant
bowl, butter dish, trough
cancer
meat slicer
earrings
on its tail (pertaining to birds)
polar bear
scolding
sexuality
pity, mercy, compassion
I smell nice
on my eye
on my eyelashes
on my eyebrow
white gold
I am raggedy
on my hairline
on my forehead, on my hairline or upper brow
my facial hair
on my whiskers, my facial hair