Early Hick Lexicon — Social Terms
Entries in the Social Terms semantic field.
- 'ilisimris /ʔi.li.sim.ris/
- to teach (verb) [Mental Terms, Social Terms, Action Terms]
- Shows productive use of ellative for causative meanings
- 'iruretil /ʔi.ru.re.til/
- gift (noun) — Always inanimate, reflecting cultural norms [Material Culture, Social Terms]
- Shows cultural link between containers and proper gifts
- 'irurlis /ʔi.rur.lis/
- cave dweller (noun) — Often refers to ritual specialists or hermits [Sacred Terms, Person Terms, Social Terms]
- Compound of sacred cave term with person marker
- 'irursibris /ʔi.rur.sib.ris/
- ceremonial gift, dowry (noun) — Used for significant life events and marriage gifts [Sacred Terms, Social Terms, Marriage Terms]
- Used for ceremonial and marriage gifts
- harabran /ha.ra.bran/
- conflict, grievance (especially between families/clans) (noun) [Social Terms, Conflict Terms]
- Shows cultural conceptualization of conflict as family/clan division
- kiris /ki.ris/
- outsider (noun) [Person Terms, Social Terms]
- Proto-Hick *kiru-ʔisu
- Shows archaic directional suffix
- kiriter /ki.ri.ter/
- foreigner, stranger (noun) [Person Terms, Social Terms]
- Borrowed from inland dialects with fossil or regional ellative-like -iter (vs standard -imris)
- natlas /nat.las/
- friend (noun) [Person Terms, Social Terms]
- Shows cluster simplification and case lexicalization. From 'one in a state of desire/affection' to 'friend'
- sibar /si.bar/
- distinguished one, unique person (noun) [Person Terms, Honor Terms, Social Terms]
- Shows development of honorific from concept of unique naming
- storbran /stor.bran/
- marriage, family union (noun) [Family Terms, Social Terms, Sacred Terms]
- Shows formalization of marriage as union between family lines
- temerok /te.me.rok/
- killer, murderer (noun) [Basic Terms, Social Terms]
- predator (noun) [Animal Terms, Basic Terms]
- Shows metaphorical formation 'death-bringer' for both human killers and predatory animals
- thralter /θral.ter/
- important day, day of significance (noun) — Common or colloquial extension from the ritual-register sense to the whole marked day [Time Terms, Social Terms, Sacred Terms]
- ritual progression, liturgical sequence (noun) — Ritual register; the ordered flow of actions in a ceremony or marked day [Ritual Terms, Time Terms, Sacred Terms]
- From thral 'appointed day; sacred/ritual in derivation' and ter 'flow, time-flow'. The ritual-register meaning refers to the ordered flow of ceremony; the common meaning extends this to the whole significant day.