Appendix:Quinigua word list
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Quinigua word list:[1] Gursky (1964) has selected and retranscribed some of del Hoyo's (1960) vocabulary, reproduced below.[2]
del Hoyo (1960)
[edit]gloss | Quinigua |
---|---|
bean | mina |
broad | patama |
deep | sarak |
deer | mau |
dog | karama |
duck | amakia |
earth | ama |
eat | ama, anama; ka(ene) |
fish | ama, ami; ka |
foot (of deer) | boi |
forehead | niapin |
go | wame, wan (?) |
great | ya; ki |
head | kai |
hill | agu, ayu; imi |
javali, hog | amoka |
many | kai, ki |
rabbit | kun |
rain | paak |
red (or black) | pan, pa |
reed | aki, xi |
rock | pixa |
tail (of deer) | apino |
thick | ta |
tobacco | axo |
tree | ana |
water | ka, kwa, wa |
References
[edit]- ^ del Hoyo, Eugenio. 1960. Vocablos de la Lengua Quinigua de los Indios Borrados del Noreste de México. Anuario del Centro de Estudios Humanisticos, Universidad de Nuevo León 1. 489-515.
- ^ Gursky, Karl-Heinz (1964 October) “The Linguistic Position of the Quinigua Indians”, in International Journal of American Linguistics, volume 30, number 4, The University of Chicago Press, , →JSTOR, pages 325–327