ojibwa
[əu'dʒibwei, -wə]
- n. 奥吉布瓦（印第安族之一）
英英释义
- 1. a member of an Algonquian people who lived west of Lake Superior
- 2. the Algonquian language spoken by the Ojibwa people
英文词源
- Ojibwa
- Algonquian people of North America living along the shores of Lake Superior, 1700, from Ojibwa O'chepe'wag "plaited shoes," in reference to their puckered moccasins, which were unlike those of neighboring tribes. The older form in English is Chippewa, which is usually retained in U.S., but since c. 1850 Canadian English has taken up the more phonetically correct Ojibwa, and as a result the two forms of the word have begun to be used in reference to slightly differing groups in the two countries. Some modern Chippewas prefer anishinaabe, which means "original people."