Early Hick Lexicon — Mental Terms

Entries in the Mental 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

'ilisok /ʔi.li.sok/

teacher (noun) [Mental Terms, Social Terms, Occupations]

'imsai /ʔim.sai/

self-doubt, anxiety (noun) [Mental Terms, Emotional Terms]

Shows cultural conceptualization of anxiety as negative self-reflection

gnater /gna.ter/

desire (verb) [Mental Terms, Emotional Terms, Basic Terms]

imerlas /i.mer.las/

inspiration (noun) [Spirit Terms, Mental Terms]

Shows productive use of illative case for inward inspiration

imlis /im.lis/

fear, dread (noun) [Emotional Terms, Mental Terms]

Shows semantic development from 'seeing evil' to general fear

imlisrur /im.lis.rur/

anxiety, constant fear (noun) [Emotional Terms, Mental Terms]

Shows extension of iterative aspect to ongoing mental state

kasai /kas.əi/

introspection, self-reflection (noun) [Mental Terms, Sacred Terms]

From ancient practice of water-gazing meditation. Shows metaphorical extension from physical reflection to mental contemplation

mulis /mu.lis/

dream, vision (noun) [Mental Terms, Sacred Terms]

Proto-Hick *muruhilisu

mulisim /mu.li.sim/

to enter a dream state (noun) [Mental Terms, Sacred Terms]

mulisimris /mu.li.sim.ris/

to awaken from a dream (noun) [Mental Terms, Sacred Terms]

mulislas /mu.lis.las/

to enter a dream (noun) [Mental Terms, Sacred Terms]

mulisthral /mu.lis.θral/

prophetic dream (noun) [Mental Terms, Sacred Terms]

sai /sai/

sense of self (noun) [Mental Terms, Sacred Terms]

inner voice (noun) [Mental Terms, Sacred Terms]

Shows folk etymology where kasai 'introspection' (< kasu-ai 'reflection-water') was reanalyzed as ka-sai leading to extraction of sai as independent term