mdaabii
Definition:
go to the beach, go to the shore
Body
mdaabii
>vai comm.
>1sIND nmadaabii;
>3sCCONJ medaabiit; 1 go to the beach, go to the shore. Ningoding giiwenh Anishinaabeg Noopimidazhininiig bi-madaabiiwaad, mii gaa- izhi-gikenimigowaad maji-Naadawen, gaa-izhi-noopinanigowaad.
>Once, as the story goes, backwoods people were known to be coming down to the water by the bad Iroquois who they were being tracked by. GM1940.rn. Mii dash maaba ikwe gii-madaabiid gii-izhaad iwidi jiigibiig gii-babaamosed dash gii-babaa-nanagamod.
>And this woman went down to the water, went over there near the shore, walked about and sang. GM1940.rn.
>Full-vowel form: madaabii.
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:
n71429457737n
GKS Reference Number:
17637