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Lenape Talking Dictionary

By English WORD or PHRASE

By Lenape WORD or PHRASE

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English:he tastes rotten (such as a cooked chicken that has been kept too long)
Lenape:alipukwsu [via]

Comments

/ë/ is elided and /iw/ is realized as /u/.
Note that chicken as food is treated as animate.

Analysis

Form:
alipukwsu
Structure:
alipukw-ësi-w
Meaning:
taste.rotten-vb-3