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sàhkaxehun

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Etymology

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From

  • /sàhkaxehi/ : to wear earrings
  • /-wën/ : forms nouns from some animate intransitive verbs

Cognate with Massachusett sogkussohhou (earring).

Noun

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sàhkaxehun inan

  1. earring

References

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