mëshihweokàn

Unami

Etymology

From mëshih (to spread an illness, to transmit a disease, verb root) +‎ -wakàn (abstract-noun suffix).

Noun

mëshihweokàn inan (plural mëshihweokàna)

  1. 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