Ainu Morpheme Explorer

Browse the Ainu morpheme database — composition, valency, and how each morpheme combines.

Morphemes: 3,082
Lexemes: 19,782
Curated: 351
Families: 63

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Browse the Ainu morpheme database — composition, valency, and how each morpheme combines.

Morphemes: 3,082
Lexemes: 19,782
Curated: 351
Families: 63

Composition

curated

input: temesirkik tokens: tem · e · sir- · kik

compound

temesir ⟨2⟩

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Composition · tokens

input: temesirkik

tokens: tem · e · sir- · kik

kik

root · transitive verb morpheme curated free Corpus ↗ review

to hit, to beat, to strike

…をたたく、…を打つ

Valency +2

Inferred from part of speech — no curated frame yet.

Combinatorics

Also: noun

Notes

Tamura 1996 carries two kik: the transitive verb 'hit, beat' and a noun 防御(?) attested in kik kar / kiki kar. Nakagawa 1995 files the Chitose headword as a transitive verb (動2) with ekik, kikkik, ukokikkik. The verb is the one under the applicative and reciprocal derivatives — ekik 'strike something against', sirkik 'knock on the surroundings', ukikkik 'strike each other', and the reduplicated kikkik 'beat repeatedly'.

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