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You can search the dictionaries in two ways. Enter an English term and then search for it in Anishnaabemowin, Cayuga or both languages (select "Any"). Or, select a letter to see the Anishinaabemowin and/or Cayuga terms beginning with that letter. "{" indicates a dependent noun - one that cannot appear without a pronoun.
sweet corn
dessert (lit. sweet things)
sugar
shorts
hundred
thimbleberries
chokecherries
predictors, messengers (literally, what they (m) said), proverb, prediction, saying, prophesy
amount of things
what it is like (preceded by a particle such as dej, nej)
our language
Small Green Corn Ceremony (refers to looking at how the plants are
a type of song
how much it holds
period of time
it is thin (material)
cloth diapers
Little Water Medicine
gravel somewhere
number of bits (money)
amount of money
village, small town
amount of pails
Cayuga (literally, small pail)
language
language words
the rhythm, the beat of a piece of music
mosquitoes
middle-aged female
the direction of the wind
the direction of the wind
the size of his belly
female stranger (literally, where she comes from)
the time to eat, mealtime
your manner
your small intestine
their duty, what he appointed them, their appointed duties.
Hold Unto (Seneca Chief Title)
male stranger, he's that age (literally, where he comes from)
middle-aged male
how high it is (inanimate object); the height of something
how high it is (inanimate object); the height of something
experience
coffee tables
I am sensitive
golf (literally, small balls that they (m) hit)
it is small, little
(it is) narrow
baby, infant
her pinky finger (Hewitt ms.)
it is short in height (vertically)
few, a little bit
just a little bit long
just a little bit long
how dirty or filthy it is
how far (distance)
black loam
it is shallow
years
it is of little importance
there are so many
cookies
mud puppies, dogfish