gdaan
Definition:
eat sth. all up
Body
gdaan
>vti comm.
>1sIND ngidaan;
>3sCCONJ gedaang; 1 eat sth. all up. Mii dash giw mhiingnag gii-bi-yaawaad, gii-bi-miijwaad iw wiiyaas gaa-mnozang aw Nenbozh, gye go kina gii-gdamwaad.
>Then those wolves came and ate up the meat which Nenabush had roasted; they gobbled up every bit of it. AM1937.rs. Pii dash ezhaayaang odi, aazhgo gii-gdaanaawaa giw gaagog.
>But when we went there, the porcupines had already eaten it up. AK1976.rs. Ngii-gkidmawaa ziizbaakdoonsan jibwaa-gdaang.
>I hid the candies from him lest he ate them all up. MC2005.cs.
>Partner: gdamwaa
>vta.
>Full-vowel form: gidan.
Languages:
Nishnaabemwin (Odawa/Eastern Ojibwe)
Part of speech:
Verb
Inanimate transitive verb
Source of term:
Mary Ann Corbiere and Rand Valentine, Dictionary of Nishnabewin Database, publication pending (2015).
Unique ID:
n73019380915n
GKS Reference Number:
15128