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Ye'kwana
Variant orthographies
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| Brazilian standard
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| New Tribes
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Etymology
Perhaps derived from shi (“to tear, slash, scratch”). Also compare seicha, soicha.
Pronunciation
Verb
siicha
- (transitive) to rip, tear, break
Derived terms
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “siicha”, 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, page 229: “[mịši:ča] 'you break it'”
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “-išiča-dɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021