kiriikuʼ

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Pawnee

Kiriikuʼ (1)

Etymology

From kiriik- (“eye”) +‎ -uʼ (nominative/absolutive suffix). Cognate with Arikara čiriikuʼ.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key):
  • Hyphenation: ki‧rii‧kuʼ

Noun

kiriíkuʼ (combining form kiriik- or kirik-)

  1. eye
  2. chit of a seed

Derived terms

References

  • Douglas R. Parks, Lula Nora Pratt (2008) A Dictionary of Skiri Pawnee, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 443
  • Zachary Rice (2016) Repurposing the comparative method for Pawnee language and dialect revitalisation‎, University of Oklahoma (Master Thesis), page 106
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