piik
Jamaican Creole edit
Verb edit
piik
- (Maroon Spirit Language) Speak.
References edit
- Bilby, Kenneth (1983). "How the "Older Heads" Talk: A Jamaican Maroon Spirit Possession Language and Its Relationship to the Creoles of Surname and Sierra Leone". New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 57 (1/2): 37–88.
Marshallese edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from English pig, from Middle English pigge (“pig, pigling”), apparently from Old English *picga.
Pronunciation edit
- (phonetic) IPA(key): [pʲiːk], (enunciated) [pʲiik]
- (phonemic) IPA(key): /pʲijik/
- Bender phonemes: {piyik}
Noun edit
piik