Unami

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Etymology

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From

  • /kshë/: to be hot
  • /-sasi-/: passive (subject undergoes action by someone)
  • /-w/ (suffix): third person suffix

Verb

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kshësasu anim (vai)

  1. (animate, intransitive) it was heated, is hot because someone heated it
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References

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