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Pawnee
Pronunciation
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- Hyphenation: riik‧suʼ
Etymology 1
Cognate with Arikara niišuʼ.
Noun
riíksuʼ (combining form riiks- or riks-)
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Etymology 2
From riiks- (“unshelled corn”) + -uʼ (nominative/absolutive suffix); cognate with Arikara neešuʼ (“corn”).
Noun
riíksuʼ (combining form riiks- or riks-)
- (Skiri) corn on a cob, unshelled corn; ear of corn
Derived terms
References
- Douglas R. Parks, Lula Nora Pratt (2008) A Dictionary of Skiri Pawnee, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 489