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Lenape Talking Dictionary
By English WORD or PHRASE
By Lenape WORD or PHRASE
Detailed Entry Information
English:
he tastes rotten (such as a cooked chicken that has been kept too long)
Lenape:
alipukwsu [via]
Comments
/ë/ is elided and /iw/ is realized as /u/.
Note that chicken as food is treated as animate.
Analysis
Form:
alipukwsu
Structure:
alipukw-ësi-w
Meaning:
taste.rotten-vb-3