Etymology

Menominee

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Today it means: A member of a nation of Native Americans indigenous to what is now Wisconsin. Full definition →

Ojibwe manoominii
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  1. Ojibwe · borrowed frommanoominii
  2. English todayMenominee

Borrowed from Ojibwe manoominii (literally “wild-rice people”); from Ojibwe manoomin.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.