sheicha
Maquiritari
Alternative forms
- (Ye'kwana) seicha
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ʃejt͡ʃa]
Verb
sheicha
- (De'kwana dialect, transitive) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
- to cut, to chop
- to sand down, to rub smooth, to polish
- to tie
Usage notes
Hall 1988, Hall 2007, and Cáceres 2011 each list this word as having an entirely different meaning.
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, volume 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