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English
Etymology
Pronunciation spelling of shit. Represents a pronunciation with the final consonant deleted (a possible realization in African-American Vernacular English). Compare bih, ahh.
Pronunciation
Noun
shii (usually uncountable, plural shiis)
- (African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of shit.
See also
Japanese
Romanization
shii
- Rōmaji transcription of しい
Ye'kwana
Variant orthographies
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| Brazilian standard
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| New Tribes
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Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *titi.
Pronunciation
Noun
shii
- sun
- an indeterminate unit of time: hour, moment
Derived terms
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “shii”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 223, 227, 398: “[ši:'] 'sun' […] shi: - sun”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “šī”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021