Transcript Eyes PowerPoint

Eye color
We talked about hair
• -tep- head
• Color + tep= hair color.
• When we use Color + tep + êwa, we are
talking about a third person.
• When we use Prefix + tep + e, we are talking
about me or you.
• Wînethani- hair
– Newînetha- My hair
Use roots and patterns.
• Just like hair color, there is a pattern for
talking about someone’s eyes.
Eye vocabulary
• Skîsheki- eye (singular)
• Skîshekôni- eyes (plural)
• -nîkw- root used to talk about eyes.
Color + nîkw
• These are listed in third person so they follow
this format: Color + nîkw + êwa
• Mêshkwi nîkw êwa
Mêshkwinîkwêwa
• Êshkipaki nîkw êwa
Êshkipakinîkwêwa
• Kâpihâ
nîkw êwa
Kâpihânîkwêwa
• Wîpekwi nîkw êwa
Wîpekwinîkwêwa
Ke pa nîkwe
Fox Lexicon exercise
• Look up the word for ‘big, much’
• Using the pattern that Sauk words follow, how
would you say “The woman has big eyes?”
• How would you say “I have big eyes?”
Fox Lexicon exercise
• Look up the word ‘eye’ in the lexicon.
• There will be a list of various words that have to
do with a person’s eyes.
• Write down in your notes all of the eye words
that have “nîkwê” in them.
• Remember, that they will look like this in the
dictionary ‘ni.kwe.’
• Write the word in the dot form, then turn that
writing into the Sauk writing and write the
definition beside it.
Remembering Roots
• Is important. If you can remember roots and
what they are used for, it will make it a lot
easier on your brain. Don’t try to remember
full words, it takes that much more space.
• -tep- hair
• -nîkw- eyes