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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:I tell of him
Lenape:ntachima [vta]

Comments

/w/ is elided in final position after a vowel.
Note: some speakers omit the morphophonemic /-t-/, creating a new form /nachima/.

Analysis

Form:
ntachima
Structure:
n-t-achim-a-w
Meaning:
1-MP-tell.of-dir-3