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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:you people are murderers
Lenape:kënìnhiluwehëmo [via]

Comments

With reduplication, the unstressed /ë/ of the root is elided and an additional
/ë/ (raised to /i/) is inserted between /h/ and /l/; another /ë is inserted between /h/ and /m/ of the MP suffix.
/wa/ is realized as /o/.
/w/ is elided in final position after a vowel.
/i/ of the first syllable is laxed in a closed syllable.

Analysis

Form:
knìnhiluwehëmo
Structure:
k-ni-nëhiluwe-hm-waw
Meaning:
2-redup-murder-MP-2pl