xkwehële

Unami

Etymology

By surface analysis, xkwe (“woman, female”) +‎ -ihële (“bird, fowl”). Compare Proto-Algonquian *no·nšye·ʔle·wa (“female bird”).

Noun

xkwehële anim (plural xkwehëleyòk)

  1. A female fowl, a hen.

References

  • Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005), “xkwehële”, in Grant Leneaux, Raymond Whritenour, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.