Early Hick Lexicon — Motion Terms
Entries in the Motion Terms semantic field.
- '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
- 'ir /ʔir/
- movement, motion (noun) [Motion Terms, Basic Terms]
- Proto-Hick *heru
- Source of verbalizer suffix -'er through grammaticalization
- 'irur /ʔi.rur/
- repetition, again (noun) [Grammatical Terms, Motion Terms]
- Proto-Hick *heru-heru
- From reduplicated form of *heru 'action'. Forms grammaticalized iterative marker -rur/-ur
- aiesp /ai.esp/
- bathe (noun) — Basic term for immersion in water [Water Terms, Motion Terms, Body Terms]
- Shows lexicalization of subessive case into basic verb stem
- barak /ba.rak/
- walking, gait (noun) [Motion Terms, Movement Terms]
- Proto-Hick *baraku
- Forms verb barak'er "to walk" with -'er suffix
- eter /e.ter/
- flow of things; correct ordering, sorting (noun) — Forms verb eter'er "to sort, arrange" [Abstract Terms, Motion Terms]
- Shows metaphorical extension of flow to proper arrangement
- imasam /i.ma.sam/
- to cower, hide from fear (verb) [Motion Terms, Position Terms, Emotional Terms]
- Shows metaphorical extension of 'resting under' to fearful hiding
- imlis'er /im.li.sʔer/
- to flee, run from fear (verb) — Contrasts with trask'er 'run (neutral)' [Motion Terms, Emotional Terms]
- Shows natural development from fear to flight response
- imlisitar /im.li.si.tar/
- to flinch, startle (verb) [Motion Terms, Body Actions, Emotional Terms]
- Uses the surface-allative reading of -itar to indicate sudden upward movement
- mabarak /ma.ba.rak/
- march, collective walking (noun) [Motion Terms, Action Terms, Military Terms]
- Collective motion from plural marker
- par /par/
- crawl (verb) [Motion Terms, Body Terms]
- *paru-heru
- Shows semantic development from 'belly-motion' to general 'crawl'
- sinas /si.nas/
- drift, passage (noun) [Motion Terms, Maritime Terms, Abstract Concepts]
- Proto-Hick *senu-asa-u
- Literally 'floating through', shows typical compound reduction
- tagimris /tag.im.ris/
- give (verb) [Motion Terms, Body Parts]
- Shows common pattern of ellative case marking motion from hand. Contrasts with taglas 'take'.
- taglas /tag.las/
- take, receive (verb) [Motion Terms, Body Parts]
- Shows common pattern of illative case marking motion into hand. Contrasts with tagimris 'give'.
- terimris /te.rim.ris/
- next (noun) [Time Terms, Motion Terms]
- Shows conceptualization of future as flow outward. Contrasts with terlas.
- terlas /ter.las/
- previous (noun) [Time Terms, Motion Terms]
- Shows conceptualization of past as flow inward. Contrasts with terimris.