Etymology

manoomin

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Today it means: wild rice, usually northern wild rice (Zizania palustris) Full definition →

Ojibwe manoomin ← Proto-Algonquian *maθo·mina
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  1. Proto-Algonquian · derived from*maθo·mina
  2. Ojibwe · borrowed frommanoomin
  3. English todaymanoomin

Borrowed from Ojibwe manoomin, from Proto-Algonquian *maθo·mina. Doublet of mnomen, which is from Potawatomi, and Mahnomen, a placename.

Words from the same roots

Ojibwemanoomin all →

MahnomenMahnomen County

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.