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Lenape Talking Dictionary
By English WORD or PHRASE
By Lenape WORD or PHRASE
Detailed Entry Information
English:
he smelled him so much that he no longer can smell him
Lenape:
pusiao [vta]
Comments
Prefix /w-/ metathesizes with root initial /p/ and is absorbed by the following /u/.
/wa/ is realized as /o/.
Analysis
Form:
pusiao
Structure:
w-pusiw-a-w-a
Meaning:
3-smell.beyond.smelling-dir-3-obv