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12 Story Sentence Search Results For "tani"
English:
10. A pregnant woman should not eat chicken for if so the baby will tear her up like a chicken looking for food.
Lenape:
10. Kè
tani
chnit xkwe matàch michi tipasi wiyus èli xu tuxkënao alàshi tipas ènta natunink mehëmichink.
English:
11. A pregnant woman should not look at a rabbit. When her child is born the child will be hare-lipped like a rabbit.
Lenape:
11. Kè
tani
chnit xkwe matàch pwënao chëmamës. Enta wëlahëlat na mwimëntëta kòhshëtune na mimëntët alàshi chëmamës.
English:
12. A pregnant woman should not look at an opossum because the child will look like a opossum.
Lenape:
12. Kè
tani
chnit xkwe matàch pwënaiyo òpinkw èli xu òpinkwinakwsu na mimentët.
English:
13. A pregnant woman should not look at a departed person as the baby's eyes will spasmodically close, it will look like a person already deceased.
Lenape:
13. Kè
tani
chnit xkwe matàch pwënaiyo awèn alalehëlexèt èli na mimëntët wëshkinko xu shëshawëshkinkwe, linakòt awèn mèchi mata ahpi.
English:
14. A pregnant woman should not keep looking at a food which is in sight without eating some because the baby will be cross-eyed.
Lenape:
14. Kè
tani
chnit xkwe matàch pwënamu mehëmichink mata michiwën èli xu na mimëntët ahpimshkinkwe.
English:
9. A pregnant woman should not eat anything that (it is suspected) a cat has tasted because a cat has a bad mouth.
Lenape:
9. Kè
tani
chnit xkwe matàch michi mehëmichink na pushis michite èli mahchëtune wa pushis.
English:
Are we dead? Where is this place?
Lenape:
Ankëluhëna hàch?
Tani
hàch yu tali?
English:
The man tightly held onto his son.
Lenape:
Na hùnt na lënu chi
tani
kwënao na kwisa.
English:
"Then pull on those things that were cut up from the elm tree.
Lenape:
"Na òh
tani
hineyo nèl kènu nèl ènta pikshahtit nèl lokanahunshi."
English:
I am strong because the Manitus gave me their own
Lenape:
nchitànìsi èli yuki manëtuwàk milkuk nèkaw
English:
And the old man said, “All the white blood has been replaced, then now he had Lenape blood.”
Lenape:
Ok luwe na hilusës, “Xu wèmi k
tani
hin na òpèk mhukw, na Lënapei mhukw ikahatu.”
English:
Where is the coward? The man who follows another man
Lenape:
Tani
hàch na shwilait? Na lënu ènta naolat pili lënuwa