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- Swampy Cree · borrowed fromᐑᓂᐯᐠ“muddy waters”
- Ojibwe · borrowed fromwiinibig“dirty waters”
- English todayWinnipeg
* From Ojibwe wiinibig (“dirty waters”), from wiini’ (“to make someone dirty”), wiinad (“it is dirty”), + nibi (“water”), plural nibig (“waters”). * After the lake, from Cree/Swampy Cree ᐑᓂᐯᐠ (“muddy waters”), describing the river's water entering the lake (CanOD).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.