lial
O'odham
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish real (“real”, unit of currency), from Latin rēgālis (“royal”).
Noun
lial (distributive lilial)
- a bit, piece of eight (an eighth of a dollar)
- go꞉k-lial
- a quarter, 25 cents
- (literally, “two bits”)
- money
- Synonym: nolawtakuḍ
- 'Am 'atp we꞉c g mu'i lial.
- There lies a lot of money.
Derived terms
- cu꞉dp-lial (“75 cents”)
- gi'ik-lial (“50 cents”)
- go꞉k-lial (“25 cents”)
- lial ba'iham (“moneybag”)
- lialga (“to have (a lot of) money”)
- s-lialga (“to have a lot of money (in many locations)”)
References
- Mathiot, Madeleine (2013), Tohono 'O'odham–English Dictionary[1], volume II, archived from the original on 22 November 2019, page 5
- Saxton, Dean; Saxton, Lucille; Enos, Susie (1983), Dictionary: Tohono Oʼodham/Pima to English, English to Tohono Oʼodham/Pima, 2nd edition, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 37
- Zepeda, Ofelia (1983), A Tohono Oʼodham Grammar, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, published after 1986, pages 167, 181
Portuguese
Adjective
lial m or f (plural liais)
- (European Portuguese spelling) pre-reform spelling (used until 1920) of leal