OF THE LENNI LENAPE INDIANS. 



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H*.-<Df Tnlis. 



There is a great variety of verbs in this language. To exhibit all 

 their compound forma would be an endless task. Every part of speech 

 may be compounded with the verb in many ways, as will be seen in the 

 course of this work. 



The verbs to have and to be do not exist in the Delaware language, 

 either as auxiliaries, or in the abstract substantive sense which they pre- 

 sent to an European mind. The verb to have always conveys the idea 

 of possession, and to be that of a particular situation of the body or mind, 

 and they may be combined like other verbs with other accessary ideas. 

 Thus the verb to have or possess is combined with the substantive, or the 

 thing possessed, as follows : 



N'damochol, I have a canoe 

 Wtamochol* he lias a canoe 

 Matte a'damocholiwi, 1 have no canoe 

 Voin ihic.ui. I have an axe 

 Nowikin, t have a house 

 W iku, he lias a house 



Wikuwek, they have a house 

 N'dalleiiiansin, 1 have cattle 

 Wtlallemansii, he has cuttle 

 N'pachksik.m. I have a knife 

 N'peyakhikan, I have a gun. 



The idea conveyed by the substantive verb to be is expressed by various 

 combinations with other parts of speech, as for instance : 



With the Substantive. 



Nekamawa « M.iinochowawall, it is their canoe 

 Ni n'dalloquepi, it is my bal 



Ki k'tlalloquepi, it is thy hat 



Nekatna wMalloqucpi, it is his oilier hnt 



Ni n'dacquiwan, it is my blanket. 



Ni nMamorhol, it is my canoe 



Ki k'damochol, it is thy canoe 



Nekama wMamochol, it is his or her canoe 



Kiluna tiMuuioehoh-iia, it is our canoe 



Kiluwa u'damocholuwa, it is your canoe 



Singular. 



I.wcnikia, who I am 

 Kwunikian, who thou art 

 Kwcnikit, who he is 



H ill* the Pronoun. 



. linn n, who. 



Plural, 

 Ewenilriyenk, who we an 

 EwenDriyek, who you arc 

 Eweniidchtlt, who they are. 



Alemlemiycnk, some of us 

 Alendemiyck, some ol you 



.llende, some. 



Plural. 



\l. mliiiiowak or alendcinichtit, some of them 



* JVolc li\f Ihe Translator. — The apostrophe- between the Inseparable pronoun and the noon ■ 

 verb indicates a sheva or mute vowel. Eliot, in his Massachusetts Grammar, indicates it by the 

 Boglish short » he would write, foi Instance, nultoppin [01 n'dappirt This apostrophe II 



times omitted in the course ol (Ins grammar, hut i- ilw tyi to be lindi rtood 



