rikucki

Pawnee

Etymology

From rikuhc- (“bird”) +‎ -kis (diminutive suffix); cognate with Arikara nikUs.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɾɪkʊt͡skɪ]
  • Hyphenation: ri‧kuc‧ki

Noun

ríkucki (combining form rikuhc- or rikuc-)

  1. 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[1], University of Oklahoma (Master Thesis), page 106
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