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Search Results of "wëshki" Lenape to English
English:
whiskey
Lenape:
wëshki
Possible Word Results
English:
my eyeglasses
Lenape:
nëwëshkinkhòkàna
English:
my eyes
Lenape:
nëwëshkinko
English:
my eye; my face
Lenape:
nëwëshkinkw
English:
My eye hurts
Lenape:
nëwëshkinkwine
English:
my whiskey
Lenape:
nëwëshkiyëm
English:
my eyes are weak
Lenape:
nshëshawëshkinko
English:
he has weak eyes
Lenape:
shëshawëshkinkwe
English:
whiskies
Lenape:
wëshkia
English:
eyeglasses
Lenape:
wëshkinkhòkàna
English:
faces; eyes; his eyes
Lenape:
wëshkinko
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Sentence Results
English:
He is blind in one eye.
Lenape:
Ahkèpinkwe kwëti wëshkinkw.
English:
My eyeglasses are dirty.
Lenape:
Nëwëshkinkhòkàna niskeyo.
English:
The white people brought us whiskey.
Lenape:
Pètakuna wàni weòpsit wëshki.
English:
What color eyes does Mary have?
Lenape:
Ta hèch likte na Mary wëshkinko?
English:
His eyes are black.
Lenape:
Wëshkinko sëkeyo.
Story Results
English:
13. A pregnant woman should not look at a departed person as the baby's eyes will spasmodically close, it will look like a person already deceased.
Lenape:
13. Kètanichnit xkwe matàch pwënaiyo awèn alalehëlexèt èli na mimëntët wëshkinko xu shëshawëshkinkwe, linakòt awèn mèchi mata ahpi.
English:
16. No one should eat a gizzard until she is an old woman or old man or it is said their face will become wrinkled.
Lenape:
16. Matàch awèn michi tësi kënch ta kìkuwi xkwe òk kìkuwi lënu ènta xu nèl wëshkinko pisële hùnd.
English:
22. Anyone (but usually children who come to the table) who refuses to eat will have their face blackened and be sent away. Anyone who sees the blackened face will not feed him.
Lenape:
22. Awèn mata kahta mitsite sëkënëmaon wëshkinkw òk ikalilëskao. Awèn ènta neyòte në sëkixink wëshkinkw mata tòxamaio.
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.
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