alokamek

Abenaki

Alternative forms

• alokamuk

Verb

alokamek

1. to work

Derived terms

• alokawôgan (“noun: work, labour; working”)
• kasalokamek (“of several people: to work together”)
• kazalokamek (“to work quickly”)
• mannalokamek (“to work slowly”)
• mômôgwalokamek (“to work roughly, coarsely”)
• môwalokamek (“of many people: to work together”)
• nisalokamek (“of two people: to work together”)
• pabakalokamek (“to work neatly, carefully”)

References

• Joseph Laurent (1884), New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues, Quebec: Leger Brousseau
• Emmon Bach (U. Mass. linguist), Sketch of Western Abenaki Grammar ([1] [2] [3])