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,
"Arrived at York in the afternoon, and commenced getting a small Indian
spelling book, which I had written, printed at Mr. McKenzie's office."
and considering "Spelling" was only 12 printed pages--3 sheets of
paper--that, I think, does qualify as "a small Indian spelling
book."
_Syncope:_
Several words are presented in a partial syncope form. For example,
_gagiinawishkiwin_ to mean a fib, a lie or a falsehood, in the partial
syncope form is _ggiinawishkiwin_, and the full syncope form is
_ggiinwishkwin_. Summerfield presents this word as _Kenahweskewin,
n. falsehood_, which seems to match the partial syncope form of the
word. However, if this partial syncope is noted, so should the dozen
or so other words shown in partial syncope.
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