siksik
Appearance
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Inuktitut ᓯᒃᓯᒃ (siksik).
Noun
[edit]siksik (plural siksiks)
- Synonym of Arctic ground squirrel.
- 1990, Erwin A. Bauer, Erwin Bauer's Bear in Their World, Outdoor Life Books, →ISBN, →OCLC:
- One autumn, I watched two different grizzlies of Denali National Park hunt for Arctic ground squirrels, or siksiks. At the northern latitudes beyond the timberline, where they live, siksiks have only a very brief summer in which to eat, raise a family, enough body fat […]
- 2003, Cherie Winner, Life in the Tundra, Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co., →ISBN, →OCLC:
- Another resident of the riparian zone is the arctic ground squirrel, also known as the siksik. These rodents eat plant seeds, stems, flowers, and roots. Like arctic foxes, siksiks forage in many areas of the tundra, but make their homes in places where the active layer is deep.
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈsiksik/, [ˈs̠iks̠ik]
- Rhymes: -iksik
- Syllabification(key): sik‧sik
- Hyphenation(key): sik‧sik
Noun
[edit]siksik
Declension
[edit]| Inflection of siksik (Kotus type 5/risti, no gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| nominative | siksik | siksikit | |
| genitive | siksikin | siksikien | |
| partitive | siksikiä | siksikejä | |
| illative | siksikiin | siksikeihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | siksik | siksikit | |
| accusative | nom. | siksik | siksikit |
| gen. | siksikin | ||
| genitive | siksikin | siksikien | |
| partitive | siksikiä | siksikejä | |
| inessive | siksikissä | siksikeissä | |
| elative | siksikistä | siksikeistä | |
| illative | siksikiin | siksikeihin | |
| adessive | siksikillä | siksikeillä | |
| ablative | siksikiltä | siksikeiltä | |
| allative | siksikille | siksikeille | |
| essive | siksikinä | siksikeinä | |
| translative | siksikiksi | siksikeiksi | |
| abessive | siksikittä | siksikeittä | |
| instructive | — | siksikein | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
Karao
[edit]Noun
[edit]siksik
- scale (of a fish)
Mokilese
[edit]Verb
[edit]siksik
Derived terms
[edit]Tagalog
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Austronesian *səksək (“to stuff, to cram in, to be crowded”). Compare Ilocano seksek, Kapampangan saksak, Central Bikol saksak, Cebuano suksok, Malay sesak. Doublet of saksak.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Standard Tagalog) IPA(key): /sikˈsik/ [sɪkˈsɪk̚]
- Rhymes: -ik
- Syllabification: sik‧sik
Adjective
[edit]siksík (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜃ᜔ᜐᜒᜃ᜔)
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]siksík (Baybayin spelling ᜐᜒᜃ᜔ᜐᜒᜃ᜔)
- forcing of oneself into a crowd, small opening, etc.
- stuffing of a container tightly
- condition of being crammed, thickly crowded, packed or stuffed tightly
Further reading
[edit]- “siksik”, in Pambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, 2018
Anagrams
[edit]Categories:
- English terms borrowed from Inuktitut
- English terms derived from Inuktitut
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English terms with quotations
- en:Squirrels
- Finnish terms derived from Inuktitut
- Finnish 2-syllable words
- Finnish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Finnish/iksik
- Rhymes:Finnish/iksik/2 syllables
- Finnish lemmas
- Finnish nouns
- Finnish risti-type nominals
- fi:Rodents
- Karao lemmas
- Karao nouns
- Mokilese lemmas
- Mokilese verbs
- Mokilese stative verbs
- Tagalog terms inherited from Proto-Austronesian
- Tagalog terms derived from Proto-Austronesian
- Tagalog doublets
- Tagalog 2-syllable words
- Tagalog terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Tagalog/ik
- Rhymes:Tagalog/ik/2 syllables
- Tagalog terms with mabilis pronunciation
- Tagalog lemmas
- Tagalog adjectives
- Tagalog terms with Baybayin script
- Tagalog nouns
