piik

Jamaican Creole

Verb

piik

  1. (Maroon Spirit Language) Speak.

References
  • Bilby, Kenneth (1983). "How the "Older Heads" Talk: A Jamaican Maroon Spirit Possession Language and Its Relationship to the Creoles of Surname and Sierra Leone". New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids 57 (1/2): 37–88.

Marshallese

Etymology

Borrowed from English pig, from Middle English pigge (“pig, pigling”), apparently from Old English *picga.

Pronunciation
  • (phonetic) IPA(key): [pʲiːk], (enunciated) [pʲiik]
  • (phonemic) IPA(key): /pʲijik/
  • Bender phonemes: {piyik}

Noun

piik

  1. a pig
  2. a hog
  3. pork

References
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