10 Story Sentence Search Results For "kawi"

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 xkwithakamika èlahkënao, nal në wënchi në luweyok.

English:27. No one should go to sleep with wet hair because the departed people will say, "Oh, this person has come to see us (in the spirit world)!" Soon the person will sicken and die. (This comes from that fact that when a person dies, and the body is washed, so also is the hair).

Lenape:27. Matàch awèn kawi ènta skàpantpat èli yuki kètëmaksichik awènik luweyok, "O, pèchi èt may nèhkuna washe awèn." Xuniti na awèn palsu òk ànkël.

English:That’s why when I used to sleep they really crowded me up, that’s why my shoulders are like that.

Lenape:ènta kawiya ntahi tahchikakok nàni wùnchi linakwsineyo kena nhòpikònàk.

English:The owl must have been jealous because he saw where the man was sleeping.

Lenape:Kànku èt mah na kukhus èli mah neyot na lënu ènta kawit.

English:I used to sleep between them.

Lenape:Lelai hànkw nkawi, nani she kena

English:That child must have been asleep over there in the house.

Lenape:Na èt ma na mimëns kawi wëlè wikihtit

English:Calmly they are sleeping

Lenape:Nalai kawiyok

English:Calmly they are sleeping

Lenape:Nalai kawiyok

English:Oh, the women bother me, even when I am trying to sleep."

Lenape:O, nsàkwihkuk nèki xkweyok, ìli ènta kawia."

English:so that some spirit in the water will not come into them."

Lenape:wënchìch mata manëtu pèxus'hìkawiyok mpinkink."