yik

From English Yi, from Mandarin 彝 (yí) with k as a placeholder.

yik

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Dongshanba Lalo.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Dongshanba Lalo terms

From Proto-Turkic *yük (“load”).

• IPA^(key): [jiːk]
• (Xarrâbî) IPA^(key): [ji(ˑ)k], [ji̞(ˑ)k]

yik (definite accusative yikü, plural yiklər)

1. load, burden

• Doerfer, Gerhard (1980), Wörterbuch des Chaladsch (Dialekt von Charrab) [Khalaj dictionary] (in German), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó
• Doerfer, Gerhard (1988), Grammatik des Chaladsch [Grammar of Khalaj] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, →ISBN, →OCLC

• IPA^(key): /jikʰ/, /jiqʰ/

yik (possessed form yiga')

1. spirit, ghost
2. shadow
3. reflection
4. image, picture
5. model
6. decoy

   k'otth'eba yiga' ― decoy of a willow ptarmigan

• beyit ch'eyiga' det'ani (“television”)
• beyit ch'eyiga' ghelniyi (“camera”)
• nax yik (“vision”)

• seyh (“safety”)
• yeyh (“to breathe”)

• Kari, James et al. (2024), Kari, James, editor, Lower Tanana Dene Dictionary, Fairbanks, Alaska: Alaska Native Language Center, →ISBN, pages 475-476

yik (plural yiks)

1. Southern Scots form of aik

• “yik, n.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.