gawaate

Definition: be shady

gawaate
>vii CL
>3sCCONJ e-gawaatek; 1 be shady. Mii dash ekdod maaba kwe, "Aabdeg sa ji-mmawzoyang maa dash gawaateg mii maa ji-nganang aw gookmisnaan."
>And then the woman said, "Certainly we can be picking berries and there where it's shady we can leave our grandmother." AK1976.rs.
>Full-vowel form: agawaate.

Languages: Nishnaabemwin (Odawa/Eastern Ojibwe)
Part of speech: Verb Inanimate intransitive verb
Source of term: Mary Ann Corbiere and Rand Valentine, Dictionary of Nishnabewin Database, publication pending (2015).
Unique ID: n73017582099n
GKS Reference Number: 14946
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