qàasi

Hopi

Alternative forms

• qaasi

Etymology

From Proto-Uto-Aztecan *kapsi.

Noun

qàasi (plural qaqsi or qaaqasi)

1. thigh

Derived terms

• qastikive
• qastimayi
• qastiva
• qastupaq
• qasveʼyta
• qasvölö
• qasʼàatsave
• qasʼöqa
• talqàasi

 

References

• Albert, Roy, Shaul, David Leedom (1985) A Concise Hopi and English Lexicon, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 69
• Hopi Dictionary Project, The (1998) Hopi Dictionary: Hopìikwa Lavàytutuveni: A Hopi Dictionary of the Third Mesa Dialect with an English-Hopi Finder List and a Sketch of Hopi Grammar, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, page 457