wisawsit

Unami

Etymology

From wisawsi anim (“to be yellow”) +‎ -t. The second sense is likely a semantic loan from English yellow man.

Noun

wisawsit anim (plural wisawsichik)

  1. A yellow creature, a yellow person.
    wisawsit namès
    yellow fish
  2. (often in the plural) An East Asian person.

Derived terms

References

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