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13 Story Sentence Search Results For "shki"
English:
13. A pregnant woman should not look at a departed person as the baby's eyes will spasmodically close, it will look like a person already deceased.
Lenape:
13. Kètanichnit xkwe matàch pwënaiyo awèn alalehëlexèt èli na mimëntët wë
shki
nko xu shëshawë
shki
nkwe, linakòt awèn mèchi mata ahpi.
English:
14. A pregnant woman should not keep looking at a food which is in sight without eating some because the baby will be cross-eyed.
Lenape:
14. Kètanichnit xkwe matàch pwënamu mehëmichink mata michiwën èli xu na mimëntët ahpim
shki
nkwe.
English:
16. No one should eat a gizzard until she is an old woman or old man or it is said their face will become wrinkled.
Lenape:
16. Matàch awèn michi tësi kënch ta kìkuwi xkwe òk kìkuwi lënu ènta xu nèl wë
shki
nko pisële hùnd.
English:
17. A person should not defecate nor urinate in a garden as 'Our Mother Corn' is pure.
Lenape:
17. Matàch awèn ikalìchieyok
shki
hakihakànink tali, èli wa Kahèsëna Xàskwim pilsu.
English:
22. Anyone (but usually children who come to the table) who refuses to eat will have their face blackened and be sent away. Anyone who sees the blackened face will not feed him.
Lenape:
22. Awèn mata kahta mitsite sëkënëmaon wë
shki
nkw òk ikalilëskao. Awèn ènta neyòte në sëkixink wë
shki
nkw mata tòxamaio.
English:
25. A person should not go to sleep with the red paint (used on the faces of dancers, or participants in the Big House Church)on his or her face because the departed people will say, "Oh, this person has come to see us," because when a person leaves this world he or she is painted, and that is the reason they say that.
Lenape:
25. Matàch awèn kawi ènta èlahkënate wë
shki
nkw èli yuki nèlkahkonkwik awènik xu luweyok, "O, pèchi washe awèn nehkuna," èli ènta awèn alëmskat yushe xkwithakamika èlahkënao, nal në wënchi në luweyok.
English:
First he smeared [some deer's] blood on his face and on his neck.
Lenape:
Hitami shuhëmëna mhukw wë
shki
nkunk òk uxkwekànkànink.
English:
a long building and they made faces on the inside,
Lenape:
kwènèk wikëwam òk wë
shki
nko manituwak lamunkwe,
English:
he opened one of his eyes a little bit he saw that the "wild Indians"
Lenape:
kwëti na u
shki
nkëm wëneyo pèchultihtit nèki awènhakeyòk.
English:
There is light from His face
Lenape:
Osëlee wënchi wë
shki
nkunk
English:
but the boy did not want to go home because they had blackened his face.
Lenape:
shëk na pilaechëch ku winki machi èli mah sëkënëmën në wë
shki
nkw.
English:
picked up the deer bladder and put it on his head.
Lenape:
wètënëmën në
shki
takàn ikahatun wilink.
English:
head, and horns, and bladder, and
Lenape:
wil òk shëmuwa òk
shki
takan òk