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29 Story Sentence Search Results For "kikay"
English:
28. In the spring in the woods (when the sap rises) a person should cut the wild grape vine and saturate the hair (with the sap) because the elders say, "Soon the hair will grow long like a grape vine."
Lenape:
28. Sikònke awèn tekënink eyok kishkshëmën në wisahkimi, skàpënëmën në mwilàxk èli luweyok yuki
kikay
àk, "Xuniti në mwilàxk xu alàshi kwënikën në mwilàxk alàshi wisahkimi.
English:
30. It was said long ago by the elders that when a person hears a little bird named a wren soon someone will visit us, it was said by the old Delawares.
Lenape:
30. Luwèn hùnt lòmëwe yuki kìkayàk ènta awèn pëntaote na chulëntët hinutët èluwènsit xuniti xu awèn kiikàmùkuna, luwèn hànkw yuki xuwi Lënapeyunkahke.
English:
38. The elders said the insects will bother a person if he tells wintertime stories when it is summer.
Lenape:
38. Luweyok yuki
kikay
àk muxwèsàk ta awèn nachihkuk ènta athiluwèt nipënëwi.
English:
7b. In the sky there is a bridge, and when a person goes home to where the Creator lives he must cross that bridge, the deceased elders said.
Lenape:
7b. Enta mushhòkunk tali hate në tayaxkun, enta awèn machite Kishelëmukònk wikit kënch ta xkoxkate në tayaxkun, luweyok kìkayunkahke.
English:
and they stayed forever in the sky our ancestors said,
Lenape:
chimahpuwàk mushhakunk luweyok
kikay
uyëmënaninkahke,
English:
I used to hear them say
Lenape:
ehëlìstaok nikahke n
kikay
uyëminka
English:
because long ago our now deceased ancestors said
Lenape:
èli lòmwe yuki
kikay
uyëmënaninkahke luweyok,
English:
that our deceased elders said.
Lenape:
kikay
uyëmënaninkahke èluwèhtit.
English:
Our elders said where
Lenape:
Kikay
uyëmënaninkahke luweyok enta
English:
So then his grandmother was told by the other elder,
Lenape:
kwëti (ka) mèli uhëma nèli òk në takòk hùnt kìkay luwe,
English:
It is said that our ancestors said that long ago
Lenape:
Lòmëwe hùnt luweyok yuki
kikay
uyëmënaninkahke
English:
For a long time I had heard our old people
Lenape:
Lòmwe nochi mpihpëntaok yuki
kikay
uyëmënaninkahke
English:
Our departed ancestors said,
Lenape:
Luweyok
kikay
uyëmënaninkahke,
English:
“A person should not brag about himself,” the elders said.
Lenape:
“Matàch awèn ahi kshàkënima hòkaya,” luweyok yuki kìkayàk.
English:
they certainly lived together. Then they began to be bewildered, then the elders began to visit each other
Lenape:
mayay wikhatuwàk. Na shè në kènu tòlëmi kwilalelìntàmëneyo, na alëmi kiikàntuwàk nèk kìkayàk
English:
It was a big piece of land our Lenape ancestors of long ago gave to them.
Lenape:
Na èt ma na xinkwi pàke hàkink yuk kènu Lënapeyok ènta lòmwe
kikay
uyëmënaninka ènta milahtit.
English:
It is said that the old one did not like her son-in-law; she hated him.
Lenape:
Na hùnt na kìkay ta ku hùnt ahi winkalaio nèl nòtunamako; wshinkalaa.
English:
That is the reason the elders say that even until now
Lenape:
Nal në wënchi luweyok yuki kìkayàk ili yukwe
English:
That elder, “truly, my friend, the house, the bark house, that was made from sheets of bark, began to leak.”
Lenape:
Nàni kìkay, "Mayay, nchus, nàni wikit, nàni hòkèsikaon, nàni wëntpe nàni kènu
English:
she told her fellow tribesmen, “Now this grandson of mine has left and we will never see him again
Lenape:
Na she na na kìkay tëlao nèl withakeyo, "Mèchi ta wa nuxwis alëmske, ta chich knineiowënanà,
English:
Then after he had been there for a while he came back again and again he told the elder,
Lenape:
Natënëshè na mata nake na làpi kwëtkin làpi mòy tëlao nèl kìkaya,
English:
rather than those of the older people.
Lenape:
nawènahta nèki kìkayàk.
English:
rather than those of the older people.
Lenape:
nawènahta nèki kìkayàk. .
English:
told to me by my now deceased ancestors.
Lenape:
ntihëlùkuk lòmwe n
kikay
uyëmënaninkahke.
English:
I am truly glad because I listened well to my now deceased ancestors
Lenape:
Pahkànchi nulelìntàm èli nuli nkëlìstaok n
kikay
uyëmënaninkahke
English:
by the seashore, is where long ago our departed ancestors used to make their homes,
Lenape:
shòhpiye, lòmëwe ehëlaikèhtit (?)
kikay
ëmënaninka,
English:
a young man should marry an old person before
Lenape:
skìnu kìkaya wëlahële na kënch
English:
Thanks to (the spirits) of our grandfathers we are well!
Lenape:
Wanìshi
kikay
uyëmënaninkahke nulamàlsihëna!
English:
Today what our elders of long ago
Lenape:
Yukwe ènta kishkwik lòmwe
kikay
uyëmënaninkahe.
