Description:

The term 'ziko' refers to asking and questions.

Verb:

As a verb, 'ziko' is a ditransitive happat verb meaning to ask a question. It takes an ergative asker, a dative person asked, and an absolutive thing asked, often a noun representing a topic or a dependent clause introduced by si which is the actual question (generally this forces the main verb of the dependent clause to be in the irrealis mood).

Noun:

As a noun, 'ziko' refers to a question.

The derived form 'zikoca' means 'interrogator' or 'questioner', and is often used as a euphemism for torture, along with the derived form 'zikocasyn', 'interrogation', as torture is a routine part of NWO interrogations.

Modifier: 

The modifier form zikos can have the sense of questioning or curious, or having the quality of a question.