mino-onaagoshin
mino-onaagoshin is the Ojibwe way to say good evening.
This phrase is used as a greeting during the evening hours.
Meaning: greeting said in the evening (intj)
Did you know?
- The word mino in mino-onaagoshin is also used in the term for 'good medicine', suggesting that a 'good' evening is not just pleasant but possesses a healing quality.
- The phrase is part of a wider system of 'animacy' where even the time of day can be treated as a living entity in conversation.
- Ojibwe is an agglutinative language, meaning mino-onaagoshin is built by stacking distinct building blocks of meaning together into one long word.
Examples in context
- Mino-onaagoshin, biindigen.Good evening, come in.
Example conversation
Migizi and Winona meet at a community dinner.
- MigiziMino-onaagoshin, Winona!Good evening, Winona!
- WinonaMino-onaagoshin, Migizi.Good evening, Migizi.
- MigiziAaniin, tashiish!Hello, how are you!
- WinonaNindaa kinebibaa.I am doing well.
