rikucki

Pawnee

Etymology

From rikuhc- (“bird”) +‎ -kis (diminutive suffix); cognate with Arikara nikUs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɾɪkʊt͡skɪ]
• Hyphenation: ri‧kuc‧ki

Noun

ríkucki (combining form rikuhc- or rikuc-)

1. bird

Derived terms

• rikuhcawiitakaaru’

 

References

• Douglas R. Parks, Lula Nora Pratt (2008) A Dictionary of Skiri Pawnee, University of Nebraska Press, →ISBN, page 492
• Zachary Rice (2016) Repurposing the comparative method for Pawnee language and dialect revitalisation‎^[1], University of Oklahoma (Master Thesis), page 106