ing-glass; something used to see the
image in
Weendegooh, n. a giant
Weyahgahsahne, n. dust
Wedookoodahdedah, let us help each other
Wequajeoong, v. to struggle
Wenaindib, n. brains
Wahbezhasheh, n. a martin
Wahwahskasheh, n. a deer
Wahwahtaseh, n. a lightning-bug
Wahwahyayah, adj. round
Wahgoosh, n. a fox
Wahnesquazewin, n. carelessness
Wahgahquod, n. an axe
Wahbahbik, n. tin
Wahbejeskezhegwa, adj. wall-eyed
Wob, v. to see
Wahzeswon, n. a nest
Wahbooyon, n. a blanket
Wahnechega, v. to misdo
Wahnewenon, v. to mislead
Wahbemenahboo, n. cider
Wesahgok, n. ash
Wegwos, n. birch tree, and its bark
Wegoobeminze, n. bass-wood
Wak, n. spawn
Z.
Zhahwanedewin, n. love
Zahzahgewejegun, n. an offering
Zagezewin, v. to fear
Zegahundahgawin, n. baptism
Zhahgemaih, n. a musketoe
Zheezebahquod, n. sugar.
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_Notes on Updated Text_
This section comes from a reader who knows considerably more Ojibwe
than the transcriber (who knows none at all):
_Orthography_
(forms in "Chipeway Spellings" : equivalent in Fiero orthography)
ah : a, aa, aanh
au, aw : aa
aih : e, enh
a, ai, -ay : e
e, eh : i, ii
ee, eeh : ii, iinh
i : i, ii, ay
oo : o, oo
ooh : o, oo, oonh
ou : --
o : a, aa
u : a, w
w-, -wh : w
y : y, ay
ch, j : j, ch
ck : k
k, g, gk : g, k
m, -hm : m
n : n
-nce : -ns
p, b, -be : b, p
qu : gw, kw
s, z, -se : s, z
sh, zh, -zhe : zh, sh
sk, sch : sk, shk
sp : shp
squ : skw, shkw
st : sht
t, d, -dt,
-te, -de, td- : d, t
_Author of Spelling book:_
I am convinced that 'Spelling' is by Peter Jones, as he was commissioned
to put together a spelling book on June 2, 1828, and presented the
manuscript to a printer in York on June 19, 1828, for the Methodist
Indian Missionary School he ran, which Conference Missionary Society
was a Methodist society. Also, in his book _Life and journals of
Kah-ke-wa-quo-na-by_, in the journal entry for the 19th, it says,
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