mayawsëwakàn

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Unami

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Etymology

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From

  • /mayawi/: right, straight, true
  • /-ësi-/ (medial): forms animate intransitive verbs
  • /-wakàn/ (suffix): nominalizer

Noun

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mayawsëwakàn inan (plural mayawsëwakàna)

  1. righteousness

References

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