tëmakàn
Unami
Etymology
From Proto-Algonquian *myeᐧϴkanawi (“road, path”). Cognate with Ojibwe miikana (“road, trail, path”), Cree ᒣᐢᑲᓇᐤ (meskanaw, “road”), Plains Cree ᒣᐢᑲᓇᐤmêskanaw (“road, path”), Montagnais meshkanau (“road, path, trail, street, route”) .
Noun
tëmakàn inan (plural tëmakàna, locative tëmakànink)
- road
References
- Rementer, Jim; Pearson, Bruce L. (2005), “tëmakàn”, in Leneaux, Grant; Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project