munsee

/M AH1 N S IY1/
noun
  1. 1

    An endangered Eastern Algonquian language, one of the two Lenape/Delaware languages (the other is called Unami), spoken aboriginally in the vicinity of what is now New York City.

  2. 2

    A member of a subtribe and one of the three divisions of the Lenape people.

  3. 3

    Archaic spelling of munshi. [(South Asia) A clerk or secretary.]