pikipiki

Gurindji

Etymology

From English pig.

Noun

pikipiki

  1. pig

References

  • Patrick McConvell. 2009. Gurindji vocabulary.

In: Haspelmath, Martin & Tadmor, Uri (eds.) World Loanword Database. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, 1028entries. (Available online at http://wold.clld.org/vocabulary/31, Accessed on 2022-05-03.)

Hawaiian

Etymology

Reduplication of piki (“shrunk”)

Verb

pikipiki

  1. (intransitive) to pinch, to squeeze

Derived terms

Further reading

Swahili

Etymology

Probably onomatopoeia.[1]

Pronunciation

  • Audio (Kenya):(file)

Noun

pikipiki class IX (plural pikipiki class X)

  1. motorcycle

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Petzell, Malin (2005) “Expanding the Swahili vocabulary”, in Africa & Asia‎[1], volume 5, →ISSN, archived from the original on 29 November 2009, page 90 of 85-107
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