OF THE LENNI LENAPE INDIANS. 113 



[of verbs.] 



JFfott Coiijurj.itioii. 

 No. I. 



POSITIl'E FORM. 



INFINITIVE MOOD. 



Achpin, to be there, in a particular place. 



PARTICIPLE. 



lingular. Plural. 



Epit", he who is there, being there | Epitschik, those being there 



INDICATIVE MOOD. 



Present Tense. 



Singular. 

 N'dappin. I am there ( Lai adsum) 

 K'dappin, thou .nt there 

 (1 pin or achpin, he is there 



Plural. 

 N'dappinecn or n'dappitiheno, we arc thcrcf 

 K'dappihhimo, you are then 

 Wdappinewo, lltcy an- there. 



.Vote. — Th:: plural is formed by suffixes as in the substantives, and the 

 prefixes are preserved. 



Preterite. 



nlar. 

 NM.ippineep orn'dappihuuip. 1 was there 

 K ineepor Ic'dappilramp, thou wen there 



H ippiucep or achpop, he was there 



Plural. 

 NMappibhenap, we were there 

 K'dappiliimoap. ye were there 

 Aclipo)' umik, they wore tlicre. 



• \'te by the Translator- I I in the sense of the preposition at. Philadelphia epit. 

 at Philadelphia, or beingal Philadelphia.- Hoi rp. p. lio- 



* .\'»te by the Translator.— 'i)n* i> the particular plural iMiullfld, and 



ins who we pokenof; wnon aeral idea i- meant to be conveyed, 



another Sena i-* made use "I. and the in I I "I the pro- 



noun u. '1 1 1 1 1 - n'i>. nanu od n'penaameen " tns, wo who are here assembled 



!>iii it the plu d is used in a ense, it should bo k'penameen, k'pendamttiu 



Bee Hecken I in i His) Trans 128 The authot makes no menti I this G 



which is, howevi i toe hidlan languages, tabu 



been observed m thi ■ i did not write i"i Philologists and in- Ian man) curi- 



ous facts respecting the forms "t tin- language entirel) unnoticed, and to ; " aoanJred bj i 

 l .i .Hi these interesting nil 



correspondence "i M H» where the] «ill find ena fj theii curiosity. 



rhe reader wO • vo differenl forms n'dap) dappi- 



hemti the words, wi Be dor- the same in many places Ih ougboul these 



•inn- This ^l I' -ii.l. was then ih.- inflect - "i the Delaware 



veit.- in tin- t'natm and ili»- .Unci dialect . and be promised to point oul to 'in- Translator, which 

 belonged to tin' ■" . to the other. But he died beture he could lultil In- promise 



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