mëshihweokàn
Unami
Etymology
From mëshih (“to spread an illness, to transmit a disease”, verb root) + -wakàn (abstract-noun suffix).
Noun
mëshihweokàn inan (plural mëshihweokàna)
- a contagion; a contagious disease
References
- Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005) “mëshihweokàn”, in Leneaux, Grant, Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project