andawendan

Ojibwe

Alternative forms
  • nandawendan

Etymology

andaw- (“seek, look for”) + -end (“act on, perceive by thought, feel in the mind”) + -an (vti class marker)

Verb

andawendan (stem andawend-, changed conjunct form endawendang)

  1. need
  2. want
    Ogii-kwiinawendaan 'iw gaa-andawendang gaa-onji-mindawed.
    What he wanted wasn't there so he got kind of mad and said the hell with it.
  • andawenim (“need, want, hunt an animate object”)
  • misawendan (“want, desire”)

See also
  • manezi (“be in need of, be short of”)
  • noonde- (“need to, before the usual time”)
  • wii- (“going to, will, want to”)

References
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