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pkwësu

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Unami

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Etymology

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  • /pukw/ : hole
  • /-ësi/ animate intransitive
  • /-w/ : 3rd person suffix

Verb

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pkwësu (vai)

  1. he has a hole in him, it (animate) has a hole in it

References

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