paksuʼ

Pawnee

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

páksuʼ

1. head

References

• 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