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Pawnee
Etymology
From rikuhc- (“bird”) + -kis (diminutive suffix); cognate with Arikara nikUs.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key):
- Hyphenation: ri‧kuc‧ki
Noun
ríkucki (combining form rikuhc- or rikuc-)
- bird
Derived terms
References
- Douglas R. Parks, Lula Nora Pratt (2008) A Dictionary of Skiri Pawnee, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 492
- Zachary Rice (2016) Repurposing the comparative method for Pawnee language and dialect revitalisation, University of Oklahoma (Master Thesis), page 106