Standard Lemma guide

Lenape

name · noun · 3 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • US: /ləˈnɑːpi/

1

name

Meaning 1

The languages (Munsee, Unami) spoken by all of this group; Delaware

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name

Meaning 2

The language spoken in the southern range of this group in coastal Delaware, southern New Jersey, and eastern Pennsylvania; Unami.

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noun

Meaning 3

A member of a group of aboriginal Americans who were living in what is now New Jersey and along the Delaware River in Pennsylvania, the coast of Delaware, and the lower Hudson Valley and New York Harbor in New York, at the time of the arrival of the Europeans in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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History

Etymology

Borrowed from Unami Lënape / lënape.

Real reading context

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