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Definition: make noise with one's wings [usually, audibly, but not visibly]

mdwen'gwiishin
>vai Wk
>3sCCONJ medwen’gwiishing; 1 make noise with one's wings [usually, audibly, but not visibly]. Pii dash besho bi-yaanid mii maa gaa-nji-gziked gii-mdwengwiishing eko-gshkihewzid.
>Then, when he came near, she flew up, with all her might flapping her wings to make noise. AM1937.rs.
>Full-vowel form: mIdwenågwiishin.

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: n71429534590n

GKS Reference Number: 17715

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