matapama

Unami

Etymology 1

By surface analysis, mahta- (“bad”) +‎ -apam (“on sight”) +‎ -a (transitive suffix).

Verb

matapama (VTA (transitive animate-object))

  1. To give the "evil eye;" to cause someone to relapse into illness simply by looking at them.
Conjugation
conjugation of matapama
matapama
1st person singular nëmatapama
2nd person singular këmatapama
3rd person singular matapama
1st person plural inclusive [Term?]
1st person plural exclusive [Term?]
2nd person plural [Term?]
3rd person plural [Term?]

Etymology 2

Verb

matapama

  1. third-person singular of matapama: he gave him the evil eye.

References

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