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Lenape Talking Dictionary

By English WORD or PHRASE

By Lenape WORD or PHRASE

Detailed Entry Information

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English:those are not many (inan.)
Lenape:xèltëwiyo (w. neg.) [vii]

Comments

Note: the form takes the inflected form /xèlit/ as a new base to which are added independent suffixes.
/i/ is dropped from the base while /ë/ is added as a transition sound between /t/ and /w/.
/wa/ is realized as /o/, and /w/ is elided in final position after a vowel.
/y/ is inserted as a transition sound between /i/ and the resulting /o/.

Analysis

Form:
ku xèltëwiyo
Structure:
ku xèli-t-wi-waw
Meaning:
not many-3conj-neg-3pl