-gamaa

Ojibwe Etymology oj -gam- + oj -aa Final oj final lake Usage notes -gamaa is not a word in Ojibwe, nor a single morpheme. It is made up of the medial oj -gam- (body of water) and the final oj -aa (to be - for something inanimate) and so together is often glossed to mean lake in English. In Ojibwe, it is preceded by an initial (root) that acts like an adjective in English. For example: ginoogamaa — the lake is long mangigamaa — the lake is large See also oj gichigami oj zaaga'igan