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48 Story Sentence Search Results For "alemi"
English:
31. When a screech owl comes to your home and and lands outside in a tree where a person lives they say, "Oh, that is not good!" They began to be afraid and they burned some salt and they prayed. That is the way the old Delawares did long ago. (The belief was that he is a messenger of bad news that someone you know or a relative is going to die.)
Lenape:
31. Enta wa chululhuwe pèchi lihëlak hìtkunk tali kochëmink ènta awèn wikit luweyok hùnt, "O, mata wëlëtu." Alëmi wishas'hatuwàk, wëlusemëneyo në sikhay òk patamaok. Elaihòsihtit hùnt lòmwe Lënapeyunkahke lòmëwe.
English:
More and more, every day and every year, it proceeds to be lost
Lenape:
ahaluwi kikishkwike òk kikahtinke alëmi taonkën
English:
they start to smell each other, they are looking for their own thing.
Lenape:
alëmi kwsiàntëluwàk, nòtunëmëneyo nihëlàchi kwèkunëmëwoo.
English:
They began to beg him and they hugged him and
Lenape:
Alëmi mehëmèntuwala òk kòskahtènao òk
English:
They began to repeatedly hit those children who were ascending.
Lenape:
Alëmi pëpahkàmaneyo nèk àspichik mimënsàk.
English:
He began to tear him to pieces, then he began to eat.
Lenape:
Alëmi pëphòkwëna, na alëmi mitsu.
English:
this icicle to float away.
Lenape:
alëmipukwën wàni nushhùkòwën.
English:
The water began to boil.
Lenape:
Alëmi wënte në mpi.
English:
They began to build houses there, they made bark houses.
Lenape:
Alëmi wikheyok në tali, hòkèsikaona manituwàk.
English:
He began to holler, saying, "You all help me! You all help me!"
Lenape:
Alëmi xaholamu, luwe, "Wichëmikw, wichëmikw!"
English:
Il commença à hurler, en disant: « Venez m'aider! Venez m'aider! »
Lenape:
Alëmi xaholamu, luwe, "Wichëmikw, wichëmikw!"
English:
Empezó a gritar: “¡Ayúdenme! ¡Ayúdenme!”
Lenape:
Alëmi xaholamu, luwe, "Wichëmikw, wichëmikw!"
English:
Er fing an zu schreien und sagte: „Ihr sollt mir alle helfen! Ihr sollt mir alle helfen!”
Lenape:
Alëmi xaholamu, luwe, "Wichëmikw, wichëmikw!"
English:
When this had all happened, they began to make
Lenape:
Enta yu wèmi kìshi lèk, alëmi manituwàk
English:
was struck by the thunders. It then began slowly
Lenape:
ìka talhukwën nèl pèthakhùweyo hùnt. Na alëmi tkaiti alëmi
English:
"You have truly done something strange. From now on you will be eaten
Lenape:
"Kehëla yukwe kchipaihòsi. Alëmi yukwe wënchi këmohulëneyo ki
English:
“What is the reason that boat is running?”
Lenape:
“Kèku hàch wënchi në muxul alëmihële?”
English:
beginning to crawl. Then one day the man told his wife,
Lenape:
kënchawèna alëmi ahpamxkwsu. Na wixkòchi ta hùnt na lìnu tëlao hùnt nèl
English:
followed her child a little way as he floated away.
Lenape:
kèxiti nòolao nèl wënichana alëmipukw.
English:
he must put some corn meal on the ice
Lenape:
kohomokàn kënch ta taonìch mèchi alëmipukwën nushhùkòwën
English:
they certainly lived together. Then they began to be bewildered, then the elders began to visit each other
Lenape:
mayay wikhatuwàk. Na shè në kènu tòlëmi kwilalelìntàmëneyo, na alëmi kiikàntuwàk nèk kìkayàk
English:
Then they began to move, the Delawares and the Nanticokes
Lenape:
Na alëmi kwsultuwàk, nèki Lënapeyok òk Wënètkok
English:
When he had finished doing that Wehixamukes began to give the war-cry.
Lenape:
Na ènta kishi në lësit naka Wehixamukèsa alëmi kukuwèmu.
English:
When they arrived where they lived, they began to cook . . .
Lenape:
Na ènta pahtit wikhatihtit, alëmi wixënuwàk...
English:
Then it began to look like rain, and was getting cloudy.
Lenape:
Na hùnt kahta sukëlan, alàshi alëmi kahta kùmhòkòt.
English:
Or rather, before he floated away he said,
Lenape:
Na hùnt shëmuch nèsko alëmipukw. Tëlan hùnt èt,
English:
Then she went to the garden to hoe the corn which hadn't yet started
Lenape:
Na ika tòn hakihakënink èt ma na xàskwim alëmi mèchi kahta
English:
that old man, they began to pray.
Lenape:
naka hilusësa, alëmi patamaok.
English:
Then they took that person out of the water and began to cut him up.
Lenape:
Na kòhpalaneyo na awèn, alëmi piksha.
English:
Then they were bewildered because already everything had burned up and everything began to be dry.
Lenape:
Na kwilalelìntàmuk mèchi wèmi kèku lute òk alëmi kaxkte wèmi kèku.
English:
The man began to cook.
Lenape:
Na lënu alëmi wixënu.
English:
The boy was just now beginning to be able to crawl,
Lenape:
Na na pilaechëch hùnt kënchawèna alëmi kàski ahpamxkwsu
English:
Then his father lost the boy, then he began to be depressed,
Lenape:
Na nèl uxò ànkhilao na pilaechëch, na talëmi sàkwelìntàm,
English:
That was the beginning of the Lenape being called "Delaware."
Lenape:
Na në shè wënchi alëmi luwènsin wa Lënape "Delaware."
English:
Then it began to stop raining. It didn't even rain a little bit.
Lenape:
Na shè na hùnt alëmi alalan. Ta ku hàshi alëmi tkaiti alalan.
English:
Then it slowly began to stop raining.
Lenape:
Na tkaiti alëmi òk pàkël(an).
English:
While they were doing that, they began to rise (into the air)
Lenape:
Nèli në lësihtit, alëmi àspiyok
English:
and that strange looking person began to sing.
Lenape:
òk alëmi asuu na chipinakwsit awèn.
English:
The next morning they began to cut firewood, and they used a
Lenape:
Opànke alëmi mànàxeyok, hnakatamuk
English:
The next morning it was cloudy, it began to thunder repeatedly and rain.
Lenape:
Opànke kùmhòkòt, alëmi pèpèthakhòn òk sukëlan.
English:
he quickly jerked out his war club and began to hit those "wild Indians" in the head;
Lenape:
pahkàskinkwehikànëm alëmi lëlàphitehon nèki awènhakeyòk;
English:
he will not be able to cross, but will fall through the ice and float away when he gets to the middle.
Lenape:
ta kàski xkohke alëmipukw hànkw na nushhùkòwën mèchi ènta lai pat
English:
the thunder beings began to gather bones.
Lenape:
talëmi maehëmëneyo xkàna nèki pèthakhuweyok.
English:
wood. Then they began to heat the
Lenape:
taxàna ulhatuwàk. Na alëmi chësasu na
English:
there was a lot of foam from which they [Whites} began to be made.
Lenape:
xahèli pitay alëmi manituwàk.
English:
Finally the ground trembled, they were all afraid. They began to scream
Lenape:
Xantki kchùkhòkehële, wishas'hatuwàk. Alëmi sësalamuwàk
English:
These thunder beings began to fly and they flew way off.
Lenape:
yuk pèthakhuhweyok tkaiti alëmi òhëlëmi ahpamihëleyok.
English:
From then on the squirrel is small
Lenape:
Yukwe wënchi alëmi washe xanikw tànktitu
