meeshi
Maquiritari
Etymology
Borrowed, perhaps from an Arawakan language; compare Chamicuro mishi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [meːʃi]
Noun
meeshi
- cat
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “meeshi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “me:shi”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “mēši”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021