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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:they stopped
Lenape:nahkihëlaneyo [via]

Comments

/wa/ is realized as /o/.
/w/ is elided in final position after a vowel.
Note: Although the third person plural suffix clearly implies a third person prefix, careful speakers use the form /nohkihëlaneyo/ in which the /w-/ prefix has metathesized with root-initial /n/ and the resulting /wa/ sequence is realized as /o/.

Analysis

Form:
na nahkihëlaneyo
Structure:
na nahkihëla-ne-waw
Meaning:
then stop-subord-3pl