hwíks

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Onondaga

Etymology

From Proto-North Iroquoian *ˈhwiks, ultimately from Proto-Iroquoian *hwihsk.

Numeral

hwíks

  1. five

References

  • Hanni Woodbury (2018) A Reference Grammar of the Onondaga Language, University of Toronto, page 424