ñiok

O'odham

Alternative forms

  • ñeok (dialectal)
  • neok (Saxton)

Etymology

From Proto-Tepiman *niokai, *nioki (“to talk”),[1] from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *niʼok (“to speak”).[2]

Related to ñi'okĭ (“language”).

Verb

ñiok (plural ñeñiok)

  1. to speak, to talk

Derived terms

  • 'O'odham-ñiok (“to speak O'odham”)
  • Ju꞉kam-ñiok (“to speak Spanish”)
  • Miligán-ñiok (“to speak English”)
  • paḍ s-ñiokimk (“to badmouth people”, literally “to have a venomous tongue”)
  • pi e ma꞉c c ñiok (“to be delirious”, literally “to speak without knowing”)
  • pi keg ñiok (“to swear, to use profanity”)
  • Pi꞉ma-ñiok (“to speak Pima/Akimel O'odham”)
  • s-gogsim-ñiok (“to swear, to use profanity”, literally “to use dog language”)
  • s-ta꞉hadam ñiok (“to tell a joke, to make a pun”)
  • skaidam-ñiokdam (“loudspeaker”)
  • vehejiḍ ñiok (“to speak for someone”)
  • ve꞉m-ñiokkuḍ (“telephone”)
  • ñiokdam (“audio/talking device”)
  • ñiokdam-ma꞉gina (“radio set”)
  • ñiokim, ñiokimk (“to want to talk/speak”)
  • ñiokimakam (“(art of) speaking”)
  • ñiokimcud (“to make something feel like speaking”)
  • ñiokimkam (“chatterbox”)
  • ñiokkuḍ (“talking device”)
  • ñioksid (“to imitate speech of someone”)

References

  1. ^ Burton William Bascom, Jr. (1965), “170a. *ˈniokai~i 'to talk,'”, in Proto-Tepiman (Tepehuan-Piman) (Thesis), Seattle, Washington: University of Washington, 66-5811, page 144
  2. ^ Stubbs, Brian D. (2020) [2011], “1869. *ni’ok ‘speak’”, in Uto-Aztecan: A comparative vocabulary‎[1], revised online edition, Flower Mound, Texas: Shumway Family History Services, page 304
  • Mathiot, Madeleine (2013), Tohono 'O'odham–English Dictionary‎[2], volume II, archived from the original on 22 November 2019, pages 123–4
  • Saxton, Dean; Saxton, Lucille; Enos, Susie (1983), “neok”, in Dictionary: Tohono Oʼodham/Pima to English, English to Tohono Oʼodham/Pima, 2nd edition, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 46
  • Zepeda, Ofelia (1983), A Tohono Oʼodham Grammar, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, published after 1986, pages 168, 183
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