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Search Results of "kìkay" Lenape to English
English:
old person, an elder
Lenape:
kìkay
Possible Word Results
English:
the elders; old people
Lenape:
kìkayàk
English:
the old people made it up
Lenape:
kìkayàk wënchituneyo
English:
to elect a ruler
Lenape:
kikay
ëmhe
English:
he is old
Lenape:
kìkayu
English:
middle-aged women
Lenape:
kìkayuxkweyok
English:
parents
Lenape:
kikay
uyëmàk
English:
our parents
Lenape:
kikay
uyëmëna
English:
our elders
Lenape:
kikay
uyëmënanàk
English:
our deceased ancestors
Lenape:
kikay
uyëmënaninka
English:
our deceased ancestors or parents or forefathers
Lenape:
kikay
uyëmënaninkahke
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Sentence Results
English:
Our elders said "sàpël," they could not say "supper." (note: No R sound in Lenape)
Lenape:
Kikay
uyëmënanàk luweyok "sàpël," ku kàski luweyok "supper."
English:
I am getting to be an old person.
Lenape:
Ntalëmi kìkay.
English:
I am already very old.
Lenape:
Pahkànchi mèchi
kikay
nhàkay.
English:
Finally he told the elder, Show them to me.
Lenape:
Xantki tëlao nèl kìkaya, Mpënamënàkw.
Story Results
English:
28. In the spring in the woods (when the sap rises) a person should cut the wild grape vine and saturate the hair (with the sap) because the elders say, "Soon the hair will grow long like a grape vine."
Lenape:
28. Sikònke awèn tekënink eyok kishkshëmën në wisahkimi, skàpënëmën në mwilàxk èli luweyok yuki
kikay
àk, "Xuniti në mwilàxk xu alàshi kwënikën në mwilàxk alàshi wisahkimi.
English:
30. It was said long ago by the elders that when a person hears a little bird named a wren soon someone will visit us, it was said by the old Delawares.
Lenape:
30. Luwèn hùnt lòmëwe yuki kìkayàk ènta awèn pëntaote na chulëntët hinutët èluwènsit xuniti xu awèn kiikàmùkuna, luwèn hànkw yuki xuwi Lënapeyunkahke.
English:
38. The elders said the insects will bother a person if he tells wintertime stories when it is summer.
Lenape:
38. Luweyok yuki
kikay
àk muxwèsàk ta awèn nachihkuk ènta athiluwèt nipënëwi.
English:
7b. In the sky there is a bridge, and when a person goes home to where the Creator lives he must cross that bridge, the deceased elders said.
Lenape:
7b. Enta mushhòkunk tali hate në tayaxkun, enta awèn machite Kishelëmukònk wikit kënch ta xkoxkate në tayaxkun, luweyok kìkayunkahke.
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