tikmo’
English: Translation
To receive a light or moderate blow on the chin, usually causing the mouth and lower face to jerk, pucker, or make a brief chewing-like movement. The impact is noticeable but less forceful or consequential than that expressed by nake’ke’an or nainge’ke’an
Notes
Semantic note
The defining feature of tikmo’ is not simply facial grimacing. It refers to the chin being struck, together with the characteristic movement or expression produced by the blow.
The existing entry under timo’ appears to combine several different meanings—face washing, subtle chewing, and grimacing after a slap. The chin-impact sense should therefore be entered separately under tikmo’, unless further speaker evidence confirms a historical connection between timo’ and tikmo’.
Intensity contrast
| Form | Meaning | Relative force |
| tikmo’ | receive a light or moderate strike on the chin | mild to moderate |
| nake’ke’an | be struck directly and forcefully on the chin | strong |
| nainge’ke’an | suffer a severe or consequential chin-strike, often with an implication of deserved retribution | strongest / figuratively charged |
Compare
- ke’ke’ — chin.
- make’ke’an — to strike someone on the chin.
- nake’ke’an — to have been struck forcefully on the chin.
- nainge’ke’an — to suffer a severe chin-strike; figuratively, receive one’s just deserts.
- timo’ — clean or wipe the mouth and facial area; also make chewing or puckering movements, subject to further disambiguation.