gshkiiwaa

Definition: be airtight

gshkiiwaa
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>3sCCONJ e-gshkiiwaak; 1 be airtight. (of a building) Gshkiiwaanoon nongo wiigwaaman; gaawii ngoji bi-nji-zhiibaawaanma-snoo.
>Houses these days are airtight; there's no place through which a draft can blow in. MC2005.cs.
>Full-vowel form: gashkiiwaa.

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: n73030610598n
GKS Reference Number: 16272
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