niganawtiget : trail blazer / head swamper / head swamper / blaze trail

Recordings:

Diane Mitchell (Listuguj)

Eunice Metallic

Joe Wilmot

Part of speech: noun animate

Translation: Tail blazer

Gloss: trail blazer

Gloss: head swamper

Example:

Text: Pie'l lpa na wetaqiet niganawtig'tijig.

Translation: Pierre comes from a long line of trail blazers.

Recording: Joe Wilmot

Pronunciation guide: ni·ga·naw·ti·get

Alternate grammatical form:

niganawtig'tijig — trail blazers — (plural)

niganawtigelitl — a trail blazer — (fourth person)

Part of speech: verb animate intransitive

Translation: He/she is a head swamper

Gloss: head swamper

Gloss: blaze trail

Example:

Text: Negm niganawtiget, na tellugwet.

Translation: He/she is a head swamper, that's his/her job.

Recording: Eunice Metallic

Pronunciation guide: ni·ga·naw·ti·get

Alternate grammatical form:

niganawtigei — I am a head swamper — (first person singular animate)

niganawtigeieg — We are head swampers — (first person dual exclusive animate)

niganawtiga'tieg, niganawtig'tieg — We are head swampers — (first person plural exclusive animate)

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