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13 Story Sentence Search Results For "amika"
English:
19. When one brushes ones hair the hair should be put in a fire, and one tells 'Grandpa Fire,' "I give it to you." It is said that when a person leaves this earth 'Grandpa Fire' will give the hair back to that person.
Lenape:
19. Enta awèn kìshi chixàmate na mixekàna may ikahatuneyo tënteyunk tali, luweyok "Tatahëlën muxumsa." Enta awèn alëmskate yushe xkwithak
amika
xu na muxumsëna na tëntay làpi mwilao na awèn.
English:
25. A person should not go to sleep with the red paint (used on the faces of dancers, or participants in the Big House Church)on his or her face because the departed people will say, "Oh, this person has come to see us," because when a person leaves this world he or she is painted, and that is the reason they say that.
Lenape:
25. Matàch awèn kawi ènta èlahkënate wëshkinkw èli yuki nèlkahkonkwik awènik xu luweyok, "O, pèchi washe awèn nehkuna," èli ènta awèn alëmskat yushe xkwithak
amika
èlahkënao, nal në wënchi në luweyok.
English:
when he leaves this earth
Lenape:
ènta alëmskat yushe xkwithak
amika
English:
for water, and for the sun shining upon us here on this earth. .
Lenape:
mpi òk yu ènta kishux pèchi òxekamakuna yushe xkwithak
amika
.
English:
water, and for the sun shining upon us on this earth
Lenape:
mpi òk yu ènta kishux pèchi òxekamakuna yushe xkwithak
amika
English:
Finally it stopped raining and the world was still.
Lenape:
Pàxkëlan xantki òk këlamixën xkwithak
amika
.
English:
so that we can continue to live longer here on this earth. Forgive us
Lenape:
pèchi pètawsinèn yushe ènta xkwithak
amika
. Punelìntàmainèn
English:
to live longer here on this earth. Forgive us
Lenape:
pèchi pètawsinèn yushe ènta xkwithak
amika
. Punelìntàmainèn
English:
Wherever on all this earth you will be eaten and your children."
Lenape:
Tëtàch elamak
amika
wèmi yu tali këmohuke òk nèl nichana."
English:
so that they can walk around here on this earth.
Lenape:
wënchìch kàski ahpamskaneyo yushè ènta xkwithak
amika
.
English:
on earth as in Heaven.
Lenape:
xkwithak
amika
alàshi òs'hakame.
English:
on earth as in Heaven.
Lenape:
xkwithak
amika
alàshi òs'hakame.
English:
here on this earth. Pity me dear Father
Lenape:
yushè ènta xkwithak
amika
. Tëmakelëmi nuxati