alëmamehële

Unami

Etymology

  • /alëmi-/ (preverb): begin to (do something)
  • /amehële/ (verb final): run
  • /-w/ (suffix): third person suffix

Verb

alëmamehële (VAI (animate-subject intransitive))

  1. to start to run

References

  • Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005), “alëmamehële”, in Grant Leneaux, Raymond Whritenour, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project