daq

daq

1. water

• David D. Thomas, Chrau grammar (1971)

• dieq
• doq (dialectal)

From Arabic ذَاقَ‎ (ḏāqa).

• IPA^(key): /daːʔ/

daq (imperfect jduq, past participle midjuq, verbal noun dewqan or dewqien)

1. to taste (perceive the taste of)

   Synonym: (commoner) tiegħem

2. to taste, try (eat or drink a bit of in order to check the taste)
3. (figurative) to experience, to go through

• togħma

• IPA^(key): /daːʔ/
• Rhymes: -aːʔ

daq

1. not (negates meaning of verb)
2. not (to no degree)

Daq is used to negate verbs and adjectives. For negating nouns and adverbs the word kan must be used.

From Proto-Katuic *ɗaak, *ɗəək, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *ɗaak.

• IPA^(key): [ɗaːʔ]

daq

1. water

   Ngay seq daq ngay seq ngoj.

   They ask to drink water.

   (literally, “they ask water - they ask - to drink”)

• Richard L. Watson, Reduplication in Pacoh (1966), page 131
• Paul Sidwell, The Katuic languages: classification, reconstruction and comparative lexicon, Lincom Studies in Asian Linguistics 58 (2005), page 51 (uses the spelling daaʔ)