alokamek
Abenaki
Alternative forms
- alokamuk
Verb
alokamek
- to work
Derived terms
- alokawôgan (noun: work, labour; working)
- mannalokamek (to work slowly)
- kazalokamek (to work quickly)
- pabakalokamek (to work neatly, carefully)
- mômôgwalokamek (to work roughly, coarsely)
- nisalokamek (of two people: to work together)
- kasalokamek (of several people: to work together)
- môwalokamek (of many people: to work together)
References
- Joseph Laurent (1884) New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues, Quebec: Leger Brousseau
- Emmon Bach (U. Mass. linguist), Sketch of Western Abenaki Grammar ( )