Gros Ventre

English Etymology From en fr gros ventre big belly. Noun s * 1 A member of a historically Algonquian-speaking Native American tribe in north central Montana. en A'aninin Aaniiih Aaniinen Atsina White Clay Proper noun 1 Their language, an Algonquian language. en Aaniiih Atsina White Clay en Allan R. Taylor Problems in obsolescence research Nancy C. Dorian Investigating Obsolescence: Studies in Language Contraction and Death Cambridge University Press 1992 171 Persons who have some knowledge of the language often talk about the language with each other; usually the conversation concerns how some particular thing was called in Gros Ventre, or how one would translate some English concept into Gros Ventre.