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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: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