wishëksëwakàn

Unami

Etymology

From wishëksi (“to do one's best”) +‎ -akàn (noun suffix).

Noun

wishëksëwakàn inan (plural wishëksëwakàna, diminutive wishëksëwakàn'tët, locative wishëksëwakànink, genitive wishëksëwakàni)

  1. Attempting to do as best as one can; a giving of one's all, one's best efforts, one's finest hour.

References

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