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English
Etymology
From Irish mhuise, originally a euphemism for A Mhuire! (“O Mary!”) in calling upon the Virgin Mary. Compare Irish muise.
Interjection
wisha
- (Ireland) An expression of surprise.
1914, James Joyce, Dubliners:'Wisha! wisha,' says I. 'A pound of chops,' says he, 'coming into the Mansion House.'
Anagrams
Ye'kwana
Variant orthographies
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| Brazilian standard
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| New Tribes
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Pronunciation
Noun
wisha
- the bearded saki, Chiropotes sp.
References
- Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “wisha”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN, page 125
- 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, 402: “[wiša] 'black monkey' […] wisha - black monkey”