Early Hick Lexicon — Bird Terms
Entries in the Bird Terms semantic field.
- limur /li.mur/
- small owl (noun) [Bird Terms, Animal Terms]
- Triggers reduction in following syllables
- mer /mer/
- bird (noun) [Animals, Bird Terms]
- parent (noun) — Extended meaning through cultural metaphor [Kinship Terms]
- Proto-Hick *meru
- murmer /mur.mer/
- night-bird, owl (noun) [Birds, Animals, Nocturnal Animals]
- night-bird, owl (noun) [Bird Terms, Nocturnal Animals]
- night-bird, owl (noun) [Bird Terms, Nocturnal Animals]
- night-bird, owl (noun) [Bird Terms, Nocturnal Animals]
- thurmur /θur.mur/
- dusk owl (noun) [Bird Terms, Nocturnal Terms]
- Proto-Hick *thuru-muru-meru
- Shows compound reduction