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Lenape

//ləˈnɑːpi// name, noun

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The languages (Munsee, Unami) spoken by all of this group; Delaware
  2. 2
    The language spoken in the southern range of this group in coastal Delaware, southern New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania; Unami.
Noun
  1. 1
    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.

    "Endless generations of Lenape stretching down the lines of the past—changed, though not destroyed, by colonialism."

  2. 2
    a member of an Algonquian people formerly living in New Jersey and New York and parts of Delaware and Pennsylvania wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Unami Lënape / lënape.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Unami Lënape / lënape.

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