Early Hick Lexicon — Action Terms

Entries in the Action Terms semantic field.

'ilis /ʔi.lis/

knowledge (noun) [Mental Terms, Perception Terms, Action Terms]

Proto-Hick *hi-lisu

Semantic extension from 'sight' to 'knowledge'

'ilisal /ʔi.li.sal/

visit (a place) (noun) [Mental Terms, Action Terms, Motion Terms]

experience personally (noun) [Mental Terms, Action Terms]

confirm via experiment (noun) [Mental Terms, Action Terms]

Shows semantic development from 'knowledge-person' to active experiential learning

'ilisimris /ʔi.li.sim.ris/

to teach (verb) [Mental Terms, Social Terms, Action Terms]

Shows productive use of ellative for causative meanings

'ilisimris'er /ʔi.li.sim.ris.ʔer/

to teach (verb) [Knowledge Terms, Action Terms]

Literally 'to cause knowledge to go out from', showing productive use of ellative for causative meanings

'irek /ʔi.rek/

stand, firmness (noun) [Basic Terms, Position Terms, Action Terms]

Proto-Hick *hi-reku

Shows archaic animacy marking through glottal prefix

ar /ar/

cut, cutting action (noun) [Action Terms, Tool Terms, Basic Terms]

Proto-Hick *xaru

haran /ha.ran/

split, separate (noun) [Action Terms]

divide (numbers) (noun) [Number System]

Proto-Hick *haranu

hilis /hi.lis/

sight, active vision (noun) [Perception Terms, Action Terms, Basic Terms]

sight, active vision (noun) [Perception Terms, Basic Terms]

Proto-Hick *hilisu

Forms two contrasting verbs: hilis'er (active looking) vs his'er (passive seeing)

hisimris /hi.sim.ris/

show (verb) — Contrasts with hilis'er 'to look' [Perception Terms, Action Terms]

Shows productive use of ellative case for causative meanings

imwes /im.wes/

invade, encroach upon (verb) [Action Terms, Conflict Terms]

Shows productive use of im in its older moral sense of evil, harmful, or improper action, not the newer western privative prefix.

krak'er /krak.ʔer/

to bite (verb) [Action Terms, Body Terms]

mabarak /ma.ba.rak/

march, collective walking (noun) [Motion Terms, Action Terms, Military Terms]

Collective motion from plural marker

sin /sin/

floating (noun) [Motion Terms, Maritime Terms, Action Terms]

Proto-Hick *senu

takimris /ta.kim.ris/

to attack, to oppose (verb) [Action Terms, Conflict Terms]

Shows development of aggressive meaning through ellative case

trask'er /tras.ker/

to run (verb) [Motion Terms, Action Terms]

Shows semantic extension from body part to motion

us /us/

grasp, possession (noun) [Basic Terms, Action Terms]

Proto-Hick *ʔulu-isu

Developed from locative form of *ʔulu (~400 PF) specializing in 'grasp' meaning

ven'er /ven.ʔer/

to carry (verb) [Motion Terms, Action Terms]