English
Lenape
Lenape comes from Unami Lënape ‘a Lenape person’, and goes back to lënii ‘common’.
- Unamimodernlënii‘common’
- Unami, derivedmodernLënape‘a Lenape person’
- Englishearliest quotation 2020Lenape
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Lineage
- Unamimodernlënii‘common’
- Unami, derivedmodernLënape‘a Lenape person’
- Englishearliest quotation 2020Lenape
Earliest quotation: 2020, N. K. Jemisin, The City We Became: “Endless generations of Lenape stretching down the lines of…”
Every English word from Unami lënii
Today it means
noun A member of a group of aboriginal Americans who were living in what is now New Jersey and along the Delaware River in Pennsylvania, the coast of Delaware, and the lower Hudson Valley and New York Harbor in New York, at the time of the arrival of the Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Unami lënii / Lenape