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Re:A Bemidji professor is on a quest to keep the Ojibwe lang... by jl6 on Monday April 20, 2020 @08:55AM (#22923401)
This is a sidetrack, but is “wel” like “do”, as per the examples on Wiktionary? Or simply like the English word “well”?
Re:A Bemidji professor is on a quest to keep the Ojibwe lang... by ivanbakel on Monday April 20, 2020 @09:37AM (#22923684)
"wel" is basically nothing like the English "well", except in archaic speech. It is similar to "do", but you can't use "do" to positively affirm nearly as much as you could use "wel". There is simply no way to directly translate it, and it has no equivalent in English - though you can describe it, as the positive "not".