Pawnee

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From huuruhaar +‎ kaatiit (black).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈhuːɾʊhaːhkaːtiːt]
  • Hyphenation: huu‧ru‧hah‧kaa‧tiit

Noun

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huúruhaahkaatiit

  1. (Skiri) dark blue flour corn (one of the Pawnees’ two favorite varieties of corn, the other being rikiistipiiku’, speckled corn)

References

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  • Douglas R. Parks, Lula Nora Pratt (2008) A Dictionary of Skiri Pawnee, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 399