sàktùkw

Unami

Etymology

Cognate with Malecite-Passamaquoddy sikuskoss (“tick”). Possibly cognate with Ojibwe ezigaa (“tick”), Potawatomi ézhgak, Menominee otāsekom.

Noun

sàktùkw anim (plural sàktùkok)

  1. tick

References

  • Rementer, Jim with Pearson, Bruce L. (2005) “sàktùkw”, in Leneaux, Grant, Whritenour, Raymond, editors, The Lenape Talking Dictionary, The Lenape Language Preservation Project
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.