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Search Results of "kawi" Lenape to English
English:
he sleeps
Lenape:
kawi
Possible Word Results
English:
bedroom
Lenape:
èhènta
kawi
nk
English:
where one sleps; bedroom
Lenape:
èhènta
kawi
nk
English:
where one sleeps; bedroom
Lenape:
èhènta kèh
kawi
nk
English:
bedroom
Lenape:
ènta kèx
kawi
nk
English:
those who are asleep
Lenape:
kawi
chik
English:
when we sleep
Lenape:
kawi
enk (w. enta)
English:
are you asleep?
Lenape:
kawi
hèch?
English:
he sleeps just a short time; he goes to sleep quickly
Lenape:
kawi
hële
English:
you people sleep
Lenape:
kawi
hëmo
English:
we sleep (incl.)
Lenape:
kawi
hëna
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Sentence Results
English:
The woman went into the bedroom.
Lenape:
Ehènta
kawi
nk e na xkwe.
English:
When he began to fall asleep.
Lenape:
Enta alëmi
kawi
t.
English:
You sleep of the ground (or floor).
Lenape:
Hakink
kawi
.
English:
He must want to sleep.
Lenape:
Kahta èt
kawi
.
English:
He wants to sleep.
Lenape:
Kahta hùnt
kawi
.
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Story Results
English:
25. A person should not go to sleep with the red paint (used on the faces of dancers, or participants in the Big House Church)on his or her face because the departed people will say, "Oh, this person has come to see us," because when a person leaves this world he or she is painted, and that is the reason they say that.
Lenape:
25. Matàch awèn
kawi
ènta èlahkënate wëshkinkw èli yuki nèlkahkonkwik awènik xu luweyok, "O, pèchi washe awèn nehkuna," èli ènta awèn alëmskat yushe xkwithakamika èlahkënao, nal në wënchi në luweyok.
English:
27. No one should go to sleep with wet hair because the departed people will say, "Oh, this person has come to see us (in the spirit world)!" Soon the person will sicken and die. (This comes from that fact that when a person dies, and the body is washed, so also is the hair).
Lenape:
27. Matàch awèn
kawi
ènta skàpantpat èli yuki kètëmaksichik awènik luweyok, "O, pèchi èt may nèhkuna washe awèn." Xuniti na awèn palsu òk ànkël.
English:
That’s why when I used to sleep they really crowded me up, that’s why my shoulders are like that.
Lenape:
ènta
kawi
ya ntahi tahchikakok nàni wùnchi linakwsineyo kena nhòpikònàk.
English:
The owl must have been jealous because he saw where the man was sleeping.
Lenape:
Kànku èt mah na kukhus èli mah neyot na lënu ènta
kawi
t.
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