kiriikuʼ

Pawnee

Kiriikuʼ (1)

Etymology

From kiriik- (“eye”) +‎ -uʼ (nominative/absolutive suffix). Cognate with Arikara čiriikuʼ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kɪˈɾiːkʊʔ]
• Hyphenation: ki‧rii‧kuʼ

Noun

kiriíkuʼ (combining form kiriik- or kirik-)

1. eye
2. chit of a seed

Derived terms

• Kirikuruks

 

References

• Douglas R. Parks, Lula Nora Pratt (2008) A Dictionary of Skiri Pawnee, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 443
• Zachary Rice (2016) Repurposing the comparative method for Pawnee language and dialect revitalisation‎^[1], University of Oklahoma (Master Thesis), page 106