wewiibshkaa

Definition: be back quick [from attending to something elsewhere], be quick [in returning from attending to something elsewhere]

wewiibshkaa
>vai comm.
>1sIND nwewiibshkaa;
>3sCCONJ yewiibshkaat; 1 be back quick [from attending to something elsewhere], be quick [in returning from attending to something elsewhere]. Gaa gnage bi-bskaabiisii. Nbaabiihaanaan. Gnabaj gii-nishnaadig. Gikendaan ge-bi-zhaad. Gii-wewiibshkaa gwa zhaazhi.
>He is not coming back at all. We (exc.) are waiting for him. Perhaps he has got lost. He knows the way here. He always made the trip back quickly before. AM1937.rs.
>Full-vowel form: wewiibishkaa.

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: n73032948879n
GKS Reference Number: 21901
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