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Ye'kwana
Variant orthographies
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Etymology 1
Compare shi (“to tear, to slash”), siicha (“to tear, to break”), soicha (“to scratch”). In other related languages, compare Kari'na seka (“to tear apart”). Possibly suffixed with -ka (privative verbalizer).
Pronunciation
Verb
seicha (Caura River dialect, transitive)
- (possibly) to cause (something) to shed or lose something, such as pieces of itself
- to cut, to chop, to cut down (plants)
- to sand down, to rub smooth, to polish
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Compare sichamü (“to secure with a rope”). Relation to the preceding etymology unclear.
Pronunciation
Verb
seicha
- (Caura River dialect, transitive) to tie
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “seicha”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “shei'chadü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “imɨdɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021