eshi
Adja
editNoun
editèshì
Further reading
edit- Eric Morley, A Grammar of Ajagbe (2011)
Japanese
editRomanization
editeshi
Ye'kwana
editALIV | eshi |
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Brazilian standard | eshi |
New Tribes | eshi |
Etymology
editFrom e- (intransitivizer) + shi (“to tear, slash, scratch”).
Pronunciation
editVerb
editeshi (intransitive, patientive)
References
edit- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 227, 404: “[yeši:ya] 'I am torn' […] yeshi:ya - I scratch/slash myself”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “-iši-”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021: “Is used with both a subj. and object; eši is used with subj. only.”