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skàte

Unami

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Etymology

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  • /skàte/: be lit, be on fire
  • /-w/: third person suffix

Related to Proto-Algonquian *saxketeᐧwi (“it catches fire, it burns”).

Verb

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skàte (inanimate intransitive)

  1. (inanimate, intransitive) it is lit (an open fire)

References

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