patak

Pronunciation[patak]
DefinitionThe sound and movement of hitting a surface / Sound and movement of fish leaping up and falling down in a canoe
Sensory ModalityMOVEMENT > Haptic
MOVEMENT
SOUND
VISUAL
Paralinguistic
Description
Rapid repetitions accompanied by up and down hand movements
Transcriptiontɕiga itɕiʎa kay tupuʎa akta kanoama ɕitaɕka; tɕiga patak patak patak kanoa ukwima
Translation‘So then, as it was just this big, he threw it in the canoe, and then patak patak patak patak (it flopped) inside the canoe.’
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Transcriptionpaj ɕamuɕa patag waɲutɕiɕa itɕuɾa sindʑi ɾunaga patag waɲtɕina kaspita pitiɕa // patag //
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Nuckolls, Janis and Tod Swanson. 2024. patak. The Quechua Ideophonic Dictionary. Online: https://quechuarealwords.byu.edu/?ideophone=patak.

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