kwaandwe

Definition: climb stairs

kwaandwe
>vai comm.
>1sIND nda-kwaandwe;
>3sCCONJ ekwaandwet; 1 climb stairs. Nahaaw, nga-kwaandwe.
>Okay, I’ll go upstairs. PL1997.rs. 2 climb (something, e.g., a tree). Ndi-kwaandwe mtigong.
>I climb on trees. CN1991.rs. Gii-kwaandwe mtigong.
>He climbed a tree. AM1937.rs.
>Full-vowel form: akwaandawe.

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: n71429059646n
GKS Reference Number: 17192
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