chanawsi

Unami

Etymology

Verb

chanawsi (VAI (animate-subject intransitive))

  1. to live a wrongful life; to live sinfully or wrongly

Conjugation

present indicative conjugation of chanawsi
chanawsi
1st person singular [Term?]
2nd person singular [Term?]
3rd person singular chanawsu
1st person plural inclusive [Term?]
1st person plural exclusive [Term?]
2nd person plural [Term?]
3rd person plural [Term?]

Derived terms

  • chanawsëwakàn (“sin; wrongdoing”)

References

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