karak
Keywords: body parts, violence
Pronunciation (IPA): | 'ka.rak |
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Part of Speech: | term noun verb |
Class: | skurun |
Forms: | karak, sinokarak |
Glosses: | knuckle, fist, punch |
Description:
The term 'karak' means a human knuckle, or a human fist. If needed to disambiguate, a person might say 'sinokarak', or 'little knuckle' for knuckles as opposed to fist.
Karak is also the verb for punching. It is a transitive skurun verb with an ergative striker and an absolutive target.