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Search Results of "min" Lenape to English
English:
currant; huckleberry; seed
Lenape:
min
Possible Word Results
English:
Place where we stayed a long time [Appoquinimink, DE - near present Middletown DE]
Lenape:
ahpukwënë
min
k
English:
place to fish
Lenape:
a
min
k
English:
he is better; he is healed
Lenape:
a
min
kahsehële
English:
he looks purple
Lenape:
chàkinkwè
min
akwsu
English:
he looks flirty; he has a flirty look
Lenape:
chë
min
akwsu
English:
small dog; feist
Lenape:
chë
min
kw
English:
he has a flirty look
Lenape:
chë
min
kwèxin
English:
little feist (small energetic dog)
Lenape:
chë
min
kwtët
English:
flirty man
Lenape:
chëmìnu
English:
chimney
Lenape:
chìmìni
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Sentence Results
English:
Some of the men are across the river.
Lenape:
Alënte lënuwàk ka
min
k.
English:
Some work in the house and some outdoors.
Lenape:
Alënte mikëmòsuwàk wikwahë
min
k òk alënte kòchë
min
k.
English:
Yes, she went to Bartlesville.
Lenape:
E-e, Ka
min
k è.
English:
Angels came from heaven.
Lenape:
Enchëlàk wënchihëleyok os'haka
min
k.
English:
Don't whistle outside after dark or your mouth will go crooked.
Lenape:
Kàchi chipëweyàn kochë
min
k ènta piskèk, xu kpimtunehëla.
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Story Results
English:
18. One should not eat or drink outside after dark without first giving a small bit, placed on the ground, for the departed.
Lenape:
18. Matàch awèn mitsi òk mëne piskewëni kochë
min
k kënch ta hìtami sukalètàmu në mehëmichink òk në mehëmënink èli yuki nèlkahkonkwik kotatàmëneyo hùnt.
English:
29. It was said long ago by the Delawares now deceased if a person goes outside or is seated outside, if he hears a Rain Crow (Yellow-Billed Cuckoo, it is named by the old Delawares) he will be lazy all day long.
Lenape:
29. Luwèn hùnt lòmwe yuki Lënapeyunkahke ènta awèn kochë
min
k li ate, shëtako lëmatahpite kochë
min
k, ènta pëntaote na chulëns kaxkhuwes èluwènsik luweyok hùnt kwëti kishkwi awèn nulhànt.
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 kochë
min
k ènta awèn wikit luweyok hùnt, "O, mata wëlëtu." Alëmi wishas'hatuwàk, wëlusemëneyo në sikhay òk patamaok. Elaihòsihtit hùnt lòmwe Lënapeyunkahke lòmëwe.
English:
into the council house. There was also a fire in that house.
Lenape:
achimulsikaonink tali. Tëntay òk hatè në wikwahë
min
k tali.
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