aonsu

Unami

Etymology

From

  • /aon/: fog, blue
  • /-ësi/: animate intransitive suffix
  • /-w/: 3rd person suffix

Verb

aonsu (VAI (animate-subject intransitive), third plural indicative aonsuwàk)

  1. to be blue (of an animate subject)
  • aone (“to be blue”) (of an inanimate subject)

References

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