k'mattîmikeen,âpé); woak { müngachsa} mattacu witachpungkewi thou-art-ashamed and { ilik } not marriage
Schakhokquiwan ktellachquiwon? Necama tschuk k'pettúneù. coat thou wearest He but He-mouth-shuts.
13. Nannen w'tellawoll na Sakima nelih Wtallocacannüng; Then he-said-to-them the king to-them his-servants
Kachpiluh nan/woan Wunachkall woak W'sittall, woak Fasten-ye-him his-hands and his-feet and
lannéhewik quatschemung enda achwipegnunk, nitschlenda throw-him where in pitch-darkness even-some
Lipackcuwoagan woak Tschætschak koalochinen. weeping and teeth-gnashing
14. Ntitechquoh macheli moetschi wentschimcussuwak, Because many they-are-called
tschuk tatthiluwak achnaeknuksitschik. but they-are-few the-chosen
The asterisk occurs in the original apparently to indicate that a word is superfluous or doubtful. The interlined translation I have supplied from the materials in the mission-Delaware dialect, but my resources have not been sufficient to analyze each word; and this, indeed, is not necessary for my purpose, which is merely to present an example of the true Unami dialect.
The Moravian Bishop, John Ettwein, was another of their fraternity who applied himself to the study of the Delaware. Born in Europe in 1712, he came to the New World in 1754, and died at the great age of ninety years in 1802. He prepared a small dictionary and phrase book, especially rich in verbal forms. It is an octavo MS. of 88 pages, without title, and comprises about 1300 entries. This manuscript exists in one copy only, in the Moravian Archives at Bethlehem.
Bishop Ettwein also prepared for General Washington, in 1788, an account of the traditions and language of the natives, including a vocabulary. This was found among the Washington papers by Mr. Jared Sparks, and was published in the "Bulletin of the Pennsylvania Historical Society," 1848.
One of the most laborious of the Moravian missionaries was the Rev. Adam Grube. His life spanned nearly a century, from 1715, when he was born in Germany, until 1808, when he died in Bethlehem, Pa. Many years of this were spent among the Delawares in Pennsylvania and Ohio. He was familiar with their language, but the only evidence of his study of it that has come to my knowledge is a MS. in the Harvard College Library, entitled, "Einige Delawarische Redensarten und Worte." It has seventy-five useful leaves, the entries without alphabetic arrangement, some of the verbs accompanied by partial inflections. The only date it bears is "Oct. 10, 1800," when he presented it to the Rev. Mr. Luckenbach, soon to be mentioned.