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Lenape Talking Dictionary
By English WORD or PHRASE
By Lenape WORD or PHRASE
Detailed Entry Information
English:
he makes the road heavily-trodden (often used in fun or defamation; as when telling a man that he makes the road look that way by going so often to the house of a woman he likes)
Lenape:
kshakèxta [via]
Comments
/w/ is elided in final position after a vowel.
Analysis
Form:
kshakèxta
Structure:
kshakèxta-w
Meaning:
tread.heavily-3