shii
See also: shií, shíi, shį́į́, shiiʼ, and Shi'i
Japanese
Romanization
shii
- Rōmaji transcription of しい
Maquiritari
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *titi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ʃiː]
Noun
shii
- sun
- an indeterminate unit of time: hour, moment
Derived terms
- shii awono ökato
- shii ekato
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “shii”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “shi:”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “šī”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021