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Etymology
From
- /mayawi/: right, straight, true
- /-ësi-/ (medial): forms animate intransitive verbs
- /-wakàn/ (suffix): nominalizer
Noun
mayawsëwakàn inan (plural mayawsëwakàna)
- righteousness
References
- Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005) “mayawsëwakàn”, in Leneaux, Grant, Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project