8 Story Sentence Search Results For "kukhus"

English:because the owl was wearing earrings

Lenape:èli sahkaxehu na kukhus.

English:The owl must have been jealous because he saw where the man was sleeping.

Lenape:Kànku èt mah na kukhus èli mah neyot na lënu ènta kawit.

English:Then those owls began to fight. The husband-owl accused his wife of being in that tree because she liked the man who was sleeping under it. Finally he hit her with his wing.

Lenape:Na tòlëmi mathakalao nèl kukhusa.

English:Then suddenly an owl alighted (in the tree).

Lenape:Na wixkaochi pèchi lihëlat kukhus.

English:The man must have heard the owls when they were talking.

Lenape:Pwëntao èt na lënu pè pèmtunhèt nèki kukhusàk.

English:Suddenly a different owl alighted there. He was her husband owl.

Lenape:Wixkaochi pèchi lihëlat na pili kukhus.

English:Finally those earrings fell - then it must have become the owl-berry. The following autumn the man returned to the place he had been sleeping and there was a vine growing with red berries that looked like the earrings the owl had been wearing. After that the Lenape called the Bittersweet vine Kukhusëwim - the "owl berry."

Lenape:Xantki pënihëleyo nèl saxkakxehuna - nal èt mah nèl kukhusëwim.

English:It must have been a female owl, a female,

Lenape:Xkwei kukhus èt mah nàn, xkwei,