The story
- Potawatomi · borrowed fromBodéwademi“those who tend the fire”
- Ojibwe · borrowed fromboodawaadamii
- English todayPotawatomi
Borrowed from Ojibwe boodawaadamii or Potawatomi Bodéwademi (“those who tend the fire”) (unsyncoped form of Bodéwadmi), from boodawaadam/bodewadm (“hearth”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.