Lenape

[ luh-nah-pey, luh-nah-pee, len-uh-pee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

, plural Len·a·pes, (especially collectively) Len·a·pe.

Origin of Lenape¹

1720–30, Americanism; < Unami Delaware ləná·p·e (equivalent to Proto-Algonquian *elen- ordinary + *-a·pe·w man)

Mr. Gallatin has proposed the term “Algonkin-Lenape,” as a philological denomination for this important family.

It was the Mohican and Lenape who veiled their faces, not the Iroquois.

Dr. Brinton tells of the rain maker of the Lenni Lenape who first drew on the earth the figure of a cross.

"It was the Lenni Lenape," returned Magua, affecting to bend his head in reverence to their former greatness.

Uncas, the panther of his tribe, the eldest son of the Lenape, the wisest Sagamore of the Mohicans!

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