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Search Results of "alëmi" Lenape to English
English:
he begins to; to begin
Lenape:
alëmi
Possible Word Results
English:
it is moving; it is going
Lenape:
alëmihële
English:
he begins to grow
Lenape:
alëmiku
English:
they eloped
Lenape:
alëmiphëtuwàk
English:
he starts to eat
Lenape:
alëmipu
English:
he floats; he is floating away
Lenape:
alëmipuk
English:
we float; we float away
Lenape:
alëmipukhëmëna
English:
they float
Lenape:
alëmipukuwàk
English:
it floats away; it begins to float
Lenape:
alëmitàn {DN}
English:
you are afraid
Lenape:
ktalëmi
English:
you begin
Lenape:
ktalëmi
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Sentence Results
English:
He is growing up.
Lenape:
Alëmi kishiku.
English:
The strawberries are ripening.
Lenape:
Alëmi kishteyo nèl tehim.
English:
The strawberries are beginning to ripen.
Lenape:
Alëmi kishteyo nèl tehim.
English:
It is beginning to get cloudy.
Lenape:
Alëmi kùmhòkòt.
English:
The man began to act manly.
Lenape:
Alëmi lënuwaihòsu na lënu.
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Story Results
English:
31. When a screech owl comes to your home and and lands outside in a tree where a person lives they say, "Oh, that is not good!" They began to be afraid and they burned some salt and they prayed. That is the way the old Delawares did long ago. (The belief was that he is a messenger of bad news that someone you know or a relative is going to die.)
Lenape:
31. Enta wa chululhuwe pèchi lihëlak hìtkunk tali kochëmink ènta awèn wikit luweyok hùnt, "O, mata wëlëtu." Alëmi wishas'hatuwàk, wëlusemëneyo në sikhay òk patamaok. Elaihòsihtit hùnt lòmwe Lënapeyunkahke lòmëwe.
English:
More and more, every day and every year, it proceeds to be lost
Lenape:
ahaluwi kikishkwike òk kikahtinke alëmi taonkën
English:
they start to smell each other, they are looking for their own thing.
Lenape:
alëmi kwsiàntëluwàk, nòtunëmëneyo nihëlàchi kwèkunëmëwoo.
English:
They began to beg him and they hugged him and
Lenape:
Alëmi mehëmèntuwala òk kòskahtènao òk
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