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Lenape Talking Dictionary
By English WORD or PHRASE
By Lenape WORD or PHRASE
30 Dictionary Entry Search Results For "church"
English:
attendant in the Big House
Church
(there were three men and three women attendants)
Lenape:
àshkas
English:
attendants (in the Big House
Church
)
Lenape:
àshkasàk
English:
bell (such as a
church
bell or dinner bell); chime (lit: that which rings)
Lenape:
salàmpwënikàn
English:
calling the names (in Big House
Church
people's Lenape names are called)
Lenape:
wiltin
English:
church
Lenape:
patamweikaon
English:
crane; singer or drummer in the Big House
Church
(there are two of these men; and they answer the person reciting a vision song); some speakers use this name for a Canada Goose
Lenape:
taleka
English:
he sings a vision song in the Big House
church
Lenape:
wënchikaneyu
English:
in the Big House
Church
Lenape:
Xinkwikaonink
English:
I sing a vision song in the Big House
Church
Lenape:
nëwënchikanei
English:
I (woman only) sing a vision song in the Big House
Church
Lenape:
atehumwi
English:
man singer of a vision song in the Big House
church
Lenape:
wënchikàneit
English:
men singers of vision songs in the Big House
church
Lenape:
wënchikàneichik
English:
of the Big House
Church
Lenape:
Xinkwikaoni
English:
our
church
es; our houses of prayer
Lenape:
mpatamweikaonëna
English:
prayer stick used in the Big House
church
Lenape:
mahtehikàn
English:
reformer (for some
church
; or some idea)
Lenape:
këntuwès
English:
she gathers berries; he picks up wampum in the Big House
Church
(a ceremony)
Lenape:
mawënsu
English:
tepee {DN} (this seems to refer to a tepee used for Native American
Church
)
Lenape:
mpisunikaon {DN}
English:
the Big House
Church
Lenape:
Xinkwikaon
English:
the Big House
Church
ceremony
Lenape:
Nkàmwin
English:
the center post of the Big House
Church
on which the Mësingw faces are carved
Lenape:
mësinkòkw
English:
the master of ceremonies in the Big House
Church
(lit: the one who enters)
Lenape:
tëmikèt
English:
the prayer sticks used in the Big House
church
Lenape:
mahtehikàna
English:
they practice singing (only used for Big House
Church
)
Lenape:
ahkwètalamuwàk
English:
to
church
; in
church
Lenape:
patamweikaonink
English:
to pick berries; ceremony in Big House
Church
picking up wampum beads)
Lenape:
mawënsi
English:
to sing a vision song in the Big House
church
Lenape:
wënchikanei
English:
you all pick berries; you all pick up wampum beads (in Big House
Church
)
Lenape:
mawënsihëmo
English:
you are holding it incorrectly; you defile it (such as
church
items from the Big House)
Lenape:
këmahchënëmën
English:
you people watch out!, coming at you! (such as a ball; or at the Big House
Church
; the prayer sounds Ho and Hè);
Lenape:
natanukw