miin'ke

Definition: pick berries, pick blueberries

miin'ke
>vai Wk
>1sIND nmiin’ke;
>3sCCONJ maan’ket; 1 pick berries, pick blueberries. Pane go zhiwi miinan dgonoon, aapji'sh go zhiwi ntaa-miin'kewak bemaadzijik.
>There's always blueberries there, so people pick blueberries a lot there. MC2005.cs. Ge-ni-bmisek ga-bbaa-miin'kemi.
>We'll go blueberry picking next week. MC2005.cs. To go bbaa-miin'kedaa eshkwaa-mno-zhiwebak.
>Hey, let's get off our butts and go blue-berry picking while the weather's nice. MC2007.cs. 2 defecate, make pellets (of animals with small round feces)
>Full-vowel form: miinike.

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: n71429681548n
GKS Reference Number: 17914
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