zhaagooskmaagen

Definition: beat others to something, get to something before others

zhaagooskmaagen
>vaio Wk
>3sCCONJ zhyaagooskmaaget; 1 beat others to something, get to something before others. "Nga-zhaagooskmaagenan," nendam-sh giiwenh.
>"I would like to get her before any one else," he thinks. SO1971.rs.
>Full-vowel form: zhaagooskamaage.

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: n2010113021-22-51n
GKS Reference Number: 23672
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