The Lenâpé and Their Legends: With the complete text and symbols of the Walam olum, a new translation, and an inquiry into its authenticityBrinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison)
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The Lenâpé and Their Legends: With the complete text and symbols of the Walam olum, a new translation, and an inquiry into its authenticity
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison)
Delaware Indians; Delaware language -- Texts; Picture-writing, Indian
Many of these are abbreviated to the extent that a single significant
letter is all that remains, as _min_ in _msim_, hickory nut; _pakihm_,
cranberry; and so _acki_ to _k_, _hanne_ to _an_, as _kitanink_
(Kittanning), from _gitschi_, great; _hanne_, flowing river; _ink_,
locative, "at the place of the great river."
_Lenape Suffixes._
_-ak_, wood, from _tachan_;
_kuwenchak_, pine wood.
_-aki_, place, land.
_-ammen_, acceptance, adoption; _wulistamen_,
I accept it as good, I believe it. See page 104.
_-ape_, male, man. From a root _ap_, to cover
(carnally). In Chipeway applied only to
lower animals.
_-atton_,
or _hatton_, to have, to put somewhere. The radical is
_ãt_. Also a prefix, as, _hattape_,
the bow; lit., what the man has.
_-bi_, tree; _machtschibi_, papaw tree.
_-chum_, a quadruped.
_-elendam_, a verbal termination, signifying a disposition
of mind. The root is _en, ne, ni_,
I; "it is to me so."
_-goot_, a snake; from _achgook_, a serpent.
_-hanna_, properly _hannek_, a river; from the root,
which appears in Cree as _anask_, to
stretch out along the ground; _mechhannek_,
a large stream.
Heckewelder derives this from _amkamme_, a river. The terminal
_k_ is, however, part of the root, and not the locative
termination. The word is allied to Del. _quenek_, long.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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