The story
- Cree · derived from[Term?]
- Ojibwe · derived fromniijii“my friend”
- English todaynitchie
From Ojibwe niijii (“my friend”); its further origin is not entirely clear. Eugene Stillday says it is a short form of niijikiwenh (“my brother, my fellow man”). Also from Cree [Term?].
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.