paksuʼ

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Pawnee

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Etymology

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From paks- (head) +‎ -uʼ (nominative/absolutive suffix); cognate with Arikara paxuʼ.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈpʌksʊʔ]
  • Hyphenation: pak‧suʼ

Noun

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páksuʼ

  1. head

References

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  • Douglas R. Parks, Lula Nora Pratt (2008) A Dictionary of Skiri Pawnee, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 458
  • Zachary Rice (2016) Repurposing the comparative method for Pawnee language and dialect revitalisation[1], University of Oklahoma (Master Thesis), page 106