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gisigwenign

Pronunciation guide: gi·si·gwe·ni·gên

Recording by Diane (Listuguj) 🔉
Recording by Eunice (Listuguj) 🔉
Recording by Joe (Listuguj) 🔉

Part of speech: noun animate
Translation: Adopted child

Meanings:

adopted child

Example of word used in sentence:

Ula nipat na gisigwenign.
My friend is an adopted child.

Recording by Eunice (Listuguj) 🔉

Alternate forms:

adopted children

(plural)

an adopted child

(fourth person)

Other words from category people

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aluse'wit - carpenter / carpentry - 🔉
aniapsuinu - penitent / one who sacrifices / missionary - 🔉
aniapsuinu'sgw - female penitent / female who sacrifices / female saint / female missionary / nun - 🔉
antaguej - black man / black person / African-Canadian person - 🔉
antaguejgwej - black woman / African-Canadian woman - 🔉
apaqtugewa'j - European - 🔉
aqalasie'w - English person / Englishman - 🔉
e'jnt - indian agent - 🔉
elege'wi'sgw - queen / queen in deck of cards - 🔉
elege'wi'sgwe'j - princess - 🔉
elege'wit - king / king in deck of-cards - 🔉
elege'witji'j - prince - 🔉
e'pit - woman - 🔉
e'pite'ji'j - young girl - 🔉
e'pite's - young woman / unmarried woman - 🔉
e'pitewe'sm - womanizer / woman-chaser - 🔉
e'pitewit - is a woman - 🔉
ewle'juinu - poor person / forlorn person - 🔉
ganaties - Canadian - 🔉
ganatie'si's - young Canadian male - 🔉
ganatiesui'sgw - Canadian woman - 🔉
ganatiesui'sgwe'j - young Canadian female - 🔉
gapiten - captain - 🔉
gast'pl - police officer - 🔉
gegina'muet - teach - 🔉
Gespe'gewa'j - Gaspesian / a person from Gaspe / resident of the seventh district - 🔉
gespugwitnewa'j - (Annapolis) valley person - 🔉
ge'tipnewinu - harvester - 🔉
gi'gassuinu - teaser / jokester - 🔉
gi'l - you (singular) - 🔉
gilew - you (plural) / you (dual) - 🔉
gi'lewei - your(singular) / yours(singular) / your(singular) / yours(singular) - 🔉
gilewewei - your(plural) / yours(plural) / your(plural) / yours(plural) - 🔉
ginu - we / us(inclusive) - 🔉
gisigu - old man / elderly man - 🔉
gisiguo'p - old man - 🔉
gisigu'sgwe'j - spinster - 🔉
gisigwenign - adopted child - 🔉
gisteju - slave - 🔉
gjiaplue'w - rascal - 🔉
gjipa'tlia's - bishop - 🔉
glaptan - blacksmith - 🔉
gneg_wetagutijig - distant relatives or relations - 🔉
gsigawa'suinu - fast runner - 🔉
gsnugowinu - sick person - 🔉
gtigiewinuj - drunkard - 🔉
gwi's - son / boy / little brother - 🔉
gwitji'j - son / sonny - 🔉
igatne'suinu - racer - 🔉
igatne'we'sm - racer (animal) / race horse - 🔉
Ji'me'j - James / Jim / Jimmy - 🔉
ji'nm - man - 🔉
ji'nmji'j - young man / unmarried man - 🔉
ji'nmji'ju'et - become a young man / enter manhood (post puberty) - 🔉
ji'nmue'sm - man chaser / likes the company of men (usually refers to a woman) - 🔉
ji'nmuit - is a man - 🔉
ji'nmu'qamigsit - act like a man - 🔉
jipugtugwewa'j - Haligonian - 🔉
Lesui'p - Jew - 🔉
lnu - Mi'kmaw person / indigenous person / native person / aboriginal person / first nations person - 🔉
lnu'sgw - native woman / aboriginal woman / first nations woman - 🔉
lnu_saqama'sgw - female native chief / female aboriginal chief / female first nations chief - 🔉
lnu_saqamaw - native chief / aboriginal chief / first nations chief - 🔉
lpa'tuj - boy - 🔉
lpa'tu'ji'j - small boy / young boy - 🔉
lpa'tujuit - be a boy - 🔉
lpa'tu's - young man / unmarried man - 🔉
lugowinu - worker / laborer - 🔉
lugowinu'sgw - worker (female) / laborer (female) - 🔉
lugs'ji'j - youngster / young boy / kid - 🔉
lu'suesgwewa'sit - perform duties of prospective daughter·in·law / become a prospective daughter·in·law / become a daughter·in·law - 🔉
lu'sue'sgwewit - is a daughter·in·law - 🔉
lu'sugwewa'sit - becomes a son·in·law - 🔉
maljewe'j - youngster / young person - 🔉
maljewe'juit - young - 🔉
malo'pj - lazy person - 🔉
matlot - sailor - 🔉
matnaggewinu - fighter / warrior - 🔉
mesegit - cook / camp cook - 🔉
me'_wen - anyone else - 🔉
mijua'ji'j - baby / child - 🔉
mimajuinu - human being / person - 🔉
mlgignewinu - strong person - 🔉
moqwa'_wen - nobody / no one - 🔉
ms't_wen - everybody - 🔉
mtesan - youngest child born in a family / youngest born / last born child - 🔉
nanupe'j - quintuplet - 🔉
na'tuen - someone - 🔉
negm - he / she / him / her - 🔉
negmow - they / them - 🔉
nemijgami' - grampa / grandfather (term of respect for old man) - 🔉
nepiteget - healer / curer - 🔉
nesupe'j - triplet - 🔉
newtugo'pj - loner - 🔉
ngutilj - bachelor / bachelorette / spinster - 🔉
nguto'pj - loner / solitary one - 🔉
niganpuguit - leader / stand at the front / stand ahead / leader - 🔉
niganus - leader - 🔉
niganu'sgw - female leader - 🔉
ni'n - me - 🔉
ninen - we / he/she and I / us (exclusive) - 🔉
nme'j'gowinu - fisherman - 🔉
nnu - Mi'gmaw person / indigenous person / native person / aboriginal person / first nations person - 🔉
nnu'sgw - native woman / aboriginal woman / first nations woman - 🔉
nnu_saqama'sgw - female native chief / female aboriginal chief / female first nations chief - 🔉
nnu_saqamaw - native chief / aboriginal chief / first nations chief - 🔉
ns'tnaqan - orphan - 🔉
nsugwi' - aunty! - 🔉
ntugsuinu - hunter / provider - 🔉
Nuel - Christmas (name) / Christmas - 🔉
nugtoqtejgwej - house keeper / maid / servant - 🔉
nugumi - granny! / grammie! - 🔉
nuja'gitteget - sawyer - 🔉
nujagnutmewinu - lawyer - 🔉
nuja'q - swimmer - 🔉
nujialapit - watchman / watchman - 🔉
nujiamalgat - dancer / dancer - 🔉
nujiewjo'teget - delivery person / hauler / deliver / transport / haul - 🔉
nujigsmoqja'teget - foreman / pusher / foreman / pusher - 🔉
nujintus - barren / sterile - 🔉
nujipi't'pet - bartender / bootlegger - 🔉
nujitmasaqte'muet - barber - 🔉
nujitoqtet - baker (professional) - 🔉
nuse'sgwet - nurse / breastfeed / breastfeeder / nurser / wet nurse - 🔉
nutanteget - hunter / killer / hunter / killer - 🔉
nutapit - scout (around) / scout - 🔉
nutapteget - coroner - 🔉
nutateji'puteget - delivery person - 🔉
nutnewet - assist at mass / serve mass / altar boy/girl / acolyte - 🔉
nutnewet - assist at mass / serve mass / altar boy/girl / acolyte - 🔉
nutpet - bartender - 🔉
nutpipnet - bread-baker - 🔉
oqote'tut - friends! - 🔉
oqoti - dear / friend / affection term between spouses - 🔉
papge'gewa'j - person from down the coast / person from down river - 🔉
papge'gewi'sgw - female from down the coast / female from down river - 🔉
pastungewa'j - American male / American - 🔉
pastungewi'sgw - American woman / American female - 🔉
pata'tegewinu - sinner - 🔉
pipugwaqane'j - bugler - 🔉
pi'tawgowa'j - male from up river / male from up the coast - 🔉
pi'tawgowi'sgw - female from up river / female from up the coast - 🔉
Plasua - Frank / Francis - 🔉
pugulatmu'j - dwarf / elf / fairy - 🔉
qopisun - infant - 🔉
qwa'niej - phoney person - 🔉
Sapatis - Jean·Baptiste - 🔉
sape'winu - Saint - 🔉
saqama'j - young gentleman - 🔉
saqama'sgw - lady / female chief / gentlewoman / woman of high rank - 🔉
saqamaw - gentleman / chief / man of high rank / big shot - 🔉
segewei - illegitimate child / bastard - 🔉
siguap - widower - 🔉
siguapji'j - young widower - 🔉
sigu'sgw - widow - 🔉
sigu'sgwe'j - young widow - 🔉
sma'gnis - soldier - 🔉
sma'gnisuit - is a soldier - 🔉
sngatigna'tegewinu - rafter / one who gathers logs into booms destined for mill - 🔉
sqapantiej - beginner / rookie / amateur - 🔉
ta'n_wen - whomever / somebody - 🔉
tapia'ji'jge'j - fiddler / violinist - 🔉
ta'ta - daddy! (baby talk) - 🔉
tata't - father! / dad - 🔉
tepgise'g - loner / loner - 🔉
tg'snugowa'j - male westerner - 🔉
tg'snugowi'sgw - female westerner - 🔉
tmawignessu - hunchback - 🔉
tp'te'snugowa'j - southerner / male southerner - 🔉
tp'te'snugowi'sgw - female southerner - 🔉
tqonasu - person who lives common·law - 🔉
tqope'j - twin - 🔉
Tune'l - legendary strong man with supernatural powers - 🔉
tu's - daughter! girl! (term of affection) - 🔉
tutji'j - little daughter! (term of affection for child) - 🔉
ugjipenugowa'j - easterner - 🔉
wa'we'j - egg person (deliverer) - 🔉
we'jitaqan - foundling - 🔉
wen - who - 🔉
wenjujgwej - French woman / Queen of Spades in deck of cards - 🔉
wenuj - Frenchman / French person - 🔉
wen_net - who's that? / who's this? - 🔉
wen_tana - who is that? / who's this? / who is he/she? - 🔉
wesgewinoqsit - joyful / jolly - 🔉
wettaqia'tijig - share common descent - 🔉
wiglatmu'j - dwarf (Nova Scotia) / elf (Nova Scotia) / fairy (Nova Scotia) - 🔉
wiuse'j - butcher / meat handler (cutter) - 🔉