s-cuk
O'odham
Alternative forms
- s-chuk (Saxton)
Etymology
From Proto-Tepiman *tuku (“black”),[1] from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *tuku (“black, dark, to exstinguish (of fire)”).[2]
Cognate with Northern Tepehuan túku and Southeastern Tepehuan chuk.
Pronunciation
Adjective
s-cuk
Derived terms
- 'eḍa-s-cuk (name of one of the vopda game tubes)
- cuk muḍagkam (“six-weeks grama grass (Bouteloua barbata)”)
- Cuk Ṣon (“Tucson, Arizona”)
- cuk-cu꞉vĭ, cuk-cu꞉v (“black tail jackrabbit”)
- cuk-vamaḍ (“black racer snake”)
- cuk-vamaḍag (“to be full of black racer snakes (in one location)”)
- cukaḍag, cukḍag (“body dirt”)
- cuku (“to become black”)
- cukud, cukujid (“to blacken something”)
- cukugva (“to paralyse someone with fear”)
- cukugṣvaḍ (“cricket (insect)”)
- cukul-ba'icuk (“horned lark”)
- cukuma, cukma (“dark colour/shade”)
- cukumug (“gnat”)
- cukumugag (“to be full of gnats (in one location)”)
- cukuḍ (“screech owl, western horned owl”)
- cukuḍ-ṣoṣa, cukuḍ-ha-ṣoṣa (“?”)
- cukuḍaṣ (“to become black repeatedly”)
- s-cuk 'ab (“on the black spot”)
- s-cuk 'eḍ (“up there on the black spot”)
- si s-cuk (“to be jet black”)
References
- ^ Burton William Bascom, Jr. (1965), “232. *ˈtuku 'black,'”, in Proto-Tepiman (Tepehuan-Piman) (Thesis), Seattle, Washington: University of Washington, 66-5811, page 149
- ^ Stubbs, Brian D. (2020) [2011], “240a. *tuka / *tuku / *tuki 'fire go out, dark, black, night'”, in Uto-Aztecan: A comparative vocabulary[1], revised online edition, Flower Mound, Texas: Shumway Family History Services, page 85
- Mathiot, Madeleine (2013), Tohono 'O'odham–English Dictionary[2], volume I, archived from the original on 22 November 2019, pages 104–7
- Saxton, Dean; Saxton, Lucille; Enos, Susie (1983), “chuk”, in Dictionary: Tohono Oʼodham/Pima to English, English to Tohono Oʼodham/Pima, 2nd edition, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 11