wiskezueksh
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Narragansett
[edit]Noun
[edit]wiskezueksh inan pl
- Alternative form of wuskeésuckquash (“(his) eyes”)
- 1769, Ezra Stiles, Notes on Narragansett Indian Vocabulary[1], Yale University Beinecke Library, Local record 1769.09.06.00, OID 11413743, pages 3 (25):
Eyes Wiskezuesqush zuekש - (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Usage notes
[edit]Originally written by Stiles with the ending zuekש, using the Hebrew letter shin to represent sh.
Further reading
[edit]- William Cowan (1973) “Narragansett 126 years after”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 39, number 1, →ISSN, page 11