Etymology

Mahnomen

M3A1H4N1O1M3E1N1

Today it means: A small city, the county seat of Mahnomen County, Minnesota, United States. Full definition →

Ojibwe manoomin
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The story

  1. Ojibwe · borrowed frommanoomin“wild rice”
  2. English todayMahnomen

From Ojibwe manoomin (“wild rice”). Doublet of manoomin and mnomen.

Words from the same roots

Ojibwemanoomin all →

Mahnomen Countymanoomin

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.