tsik
| Pronunciation | [tsik] |
| Related Ideophones | tsan1 |
| Definition | said of anything tall, erect, straight, such as a tree, or of anything that moves in a straight up or straight out direction, as when tobacco juice is ejected in a straight line from the mouth |
| Sensory Modality | Pattern VISUAL |
| Paralinguistic Description | Gestured by hand or hands moving upward to depict the spatial expanse of what is straight and tall |
| Transcription | ɕag aɾa kaspi tsik-ʎaɕi aɕkaɾa ɾuya ninawŋ |
| Translation | There was a tree that was (pointing) just tsik-like (very straight up and tall) they said |
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| Transcription | armachikpiwas yanga tsik tsik tsik tsik tsikshi llukshira |
| Translation | making (him) bathe was useless (the water) fell off tsik tsik tsik tsik |
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Nuckolls, Janis and Sydney Ludlow. 2026. tsik. The Quechua Ideophonic Dictionary. Online: https://quechuarealwords.byu.edu/?ideophone=tsik.
