Munsee
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See also: munsee
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Munsee mŭnúsunk (“at the island”), from munús (“island”). Compare Ojibwe minis (“island”), minising (“at the island”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]Munsee (plural Munsees or Munsee)
- A member of a subtribe and one of the three divisions of the Lenape people.
Proper noun
[edit]Munsee
- An endangered Eastern Algonquian language, one of the two Lenape/Delaware languages (the other is called Unami), spoken aboriginally in the vicinity of what is now New York City.
- 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became, Orbit, page 298:
- They stare at her like she’s just spoken in Munsee.
Translations
[edit]Eastern Algonquian language