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nizigos nad

my aunt (cross-aunt: father's sister)

Note:
Someone's father's sister and their mother's sister are both called aunt in English but in Anishinaabemowin they are called by different words. The father's sister is a cross-aunt. There is no simple independent word for this relative. A personal prefix goes with a dependent noun stem /=zigos-/ aunt (cross-aunt: father's sister) to make a full word:
  • nizigos, inzigos, nzigos my aunt (cross-aunt) (1s-3s)
  • gizigos your aunt (cross-aunt) (2s-3s)
  • ozigosan h/ aunt (cross-aunt)
    • [MN] ozigosan h/ aunt (cross-aunt) / aunts (cross-aunts) (3s-3')
    • [BL] ozigosan h/ aunt (cross-aunt) (3s-3's)
    • [BL] ozigosa' h/ aunts (cross-aunts) (3s-3'p)
Some basic forms of nizigos my aunt (cross-aunt) are:



nizigos sg; nizigosag pl; Stem: /=zigos-/

nizigos sg es
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nj
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nizigosag pl es
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nj
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Nora Livesay, Editor
John D. Nichols, Founder and Linguistic Editor

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Word Family

=zigos- nad STEM FOR: cross-aunt (father's sister)
nizigos nad my aunt (cross-aunt: father's sister) inzigos nad my aunt (cross-aunt: father's sister) gizigos nad your aunt (cross-aunt: father's sister) ozigosan nad h/ aunt (cross-aunt: father's sister)

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