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Search Results of "shèt" Lenape to English
English:
shed
Lenape:
shèt
Possible Word Results
English:
he is cantering (horseback)
Lenape:
këkpëshètietèxin
English:
they are cantering (horseback)
Lenape:
këkpëshètietèxinuk
English:
stove
Lenape:
kèkshëtèk
English:
stoves
Lenape:
kèkshëtèka
English:
he has a harelip (cleft lip)
Lenape:
kòhshëtune
English:
he has caved in lips
Lenape:
kòshëtune
English:
it is hot (used for a thing, not for weather)
Lenape:
kshëte
English:
when I feel hot
Lenape:
kshëteamàlsia (w/enta)
English:
they look hot (IN)
Lenape:
kshëteinakòhttu
English:
when it is hot (a thing, not weather)
Lenape:
kshëtèk (w/ enta)
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Sentence Results
English:
When it is a hot day I begin to really feel like I would vomit.
Lenape:
Enta kshëtèk yu kishkwik ntalëmi ahi nkata mëlàntàm alàshi.
English:
We should go outside, it is very hot in the house.
Lenape:
Kochëmink a ktahëna, sòmi kshëte wikwahëmink.
English:
I like to eat hot food (hot in temperature, does not mean spicy)
Lenape:
Kshëtèk mehëmichink ni nëwinkitàm.
English:
That dish is hot.
Lenape:
Kshëte në lokèns.
English:
That white dish is hot.
Lenape:
Kshëte në opèk lokèns.
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Story Results
English:
11. A pregnant woman should not look at a rabbit. When her child is born the child will be hare-lipped like a rabbit.
Lenape:
11. Kètanichnit xkwe matàch pwënao chëmamës. Enta wëlahëlat na mwimëntëta kòhshëtune na mimëntët alàshi chëmamës.
English:
20. A menstruating woman should not go into the Big House, nor dance in the Doll Dance. she is in her menstrual period, and that will make unclean the things that are good.
Lenape:
20. Alëwixënit xkwe matàch tëmike xinkwikaonink tali, shëtako këntkate òhtas këntkan. Nisksu na xkwe, òk niskitun wèmi kèku weltëk.
English:
21. A person should not use salt in Feast food (a Feast for the departed) or in food eaten after a peyote meetings. (These foods are cooked without salt and no salt is used before eating.)
Lenape:
21. Matàch awèn hnakatamu sikhay ènta wihunkèt shëtako ènta kìshi michihtit mpisun.
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 kochëmink li ate, shëtako lëmatahpite kochëmink, ènta pëntaote na chulëns kaxkhuwes èluwènsik luweyok hùnt kwëti kishkwi awèn nulhànt.
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