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sìkêt
a word from vocabulary
Hausa
by
Ari Awagana
and
H. Ekkehard Wolff
with
Doris Löhr
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Word form
sìkêt
LWT meaning(s)
the skirt
Word meaning
modern type of skirt
Comments on word
word structure unusual for nouns, but acceptable for ideophones
Analyzability
unanalyzable
Age
Modern [4] (1900–2000)
Loanword Information
Borrowed status
1. clearly borrowed
Source words
skirt
'skirt'
English
Effect
Coexistence
Salience
Present only since contact
Contact situation
English colonial [4]
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