dagon

• Hyphenation: da‧gon

dagon

1. a lucky charm

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Compare Ratagnon dagon.

dagon

1. year

• dagoun

Compare English dag (“a loose end”).

dagon (plural dagons)

1. A slip or piece; a scrap, particularly of cloth
   • 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Somnour's Tale", in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; Rev. Walter W. Skeat, editor, The Complete Works of Geoffrey Chaucer, Vol. 4, Second Edition, Oxford at the Clarendon Press: Humphrey Milford, 1900, →OCLC, lines 1746–1753 (38–45)

     'Yeve us a busshel whete, malt, or reye,
     A goddes kechil, or a trip of chese,
     Or elles what yow list, we may nat chese;
     A goddes halfpeny or a masse-peny,
     Or yeve us of your brawn, if ye have eny;
     A dagon of your blanket, leve dame,
     Our suster dere, lo! here I write your name;
     Bacon or beef, or swich thing as ye finde.'

     "Give us a bushel of wheat, malt or rye, or a God's cake, or some cheese—whatever you like, we leave it up to you. A God's halfpenny or mass-penny, or a piece of meat, if you have any; A scrap of your blanket, my dear lady, our sister dear, look! I write your name here: Bacon or beef, or any such thing you find."

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dagon (inanimate intransitive (vii), changed conjunct form endagog, changed conjunct stem endagon)

1. be situated in (a certain place)

   Mii imaa endagoninig o'o odasanjigoowigamig.

   That's where her storage lodge was located.

• ate
• ayaa
• biinde

• The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/dagon-vii

dagw- (include) + -in (act on by hand)

dagon (transitive animate (vta), changed conjunct form degonaad, reduplicated form dadagon)

1. add in, mix in

   Nindagonaag okaadaakoog naboobiikeyaan.

   I add carrots when I make soup.

• dagonan

• ginigawin

• The Ojibwe People's Dictionary https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/main-entry/dagon-vta

Compare Cuyunon dagon.

dagon

1. year