mayawsëwakàn

Unami

Etymology

From

• /mayawi/: right, straight, true
• /-ësi-/ (medial): forms animate intransitive verbs
• /-wakàn/ (suffix): nominalizer

Noun

mayawsëwakàn inan (plural mayawsëwakàna)

1. righteousness

References

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