nehënaonkès

Unami

Alternative forms

• nehënayunkès

Etymology

Literally “he who carries”, from the stem -nayum- (“to carry on one’s back”), from *nayoᐧmeᐧwa.

Noun

nehënaonkès anim

1. horse

Inflection

• nehënaonkèsàk (plural)
• nehënaonkèsink (locative)
• nehënaonkètët (diminutive)

Derived terms

• nehënaonkësikaon

References

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