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Etymology
By surface analysis, sapële (“it shines, it is shiny”, the initial sa- is a reduplication) + -is (nominalizing suffix).
Noun
sasapis anim (plural sasapisàk)
- firefly, lightning bug
References
- Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005) “sasapis”, in Leneaux, Grant, Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project