shaw'aan

Definition: butter sth., put a spread on sth., spread sth. [on an object]

shaw'aan
>vti
>1sIND nda-shaw’aan;
>3sCCONJ e-shaw’ang; 1 butter sth., put a spread on sth., spread sth. [on an object]. (of food) Gii-shaw'aan na zhaazhi toast?
>Did you butter the toast already? MC2005.cs.
>Partner: shawaa
>vta.
>Full-vowel form: ?[zha]shawahan.

Languages: Nishnaabemwin (Odawa/Eastern Ojibwe)
Part of speech: Verb Inanimate transitive verb
Source of term: Mary Ann Corbiere and Rand Valentine, Dictionary of Nishnabewin Database, publication pending (2015).
Unique ID: n7303407566n
GKS Reference Number: 21192
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