kikky
Keywords: fighting
| Pronunciation (IPA): | 'kik.kÉ™ |
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| Part of Speech: | term verb noun |
| Class: | skurun |
| Forms: | kikky |
| Glosses: | kick, quit, point, try, attempt |
Description:
The term 'kikky' was borrowed from English word 'kick' or 'kicker' sometime in the middle period and became an accepted High Common work by the early modern period. It means literally kick, as well as being a word for quit and for the point in a conversation.
Verb:
As a verb, 'kikky' is a transitive skurun verb meaning exactly 'kick', to strike with the foot. It takes an ergative kicker and an absolutive thing kicked. It also metaphorically means to quit something, where the thing quit is in the absolutive case. This appears to be a calque from English, but can be used much more universally, for example, you can kick you job to mean that you quit it.
Noun:
As a noun, 'kikky' means a try or attempt as well as the central point in an argument or conversation.