seicha

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV	seicha
Brazilian standard	seicha
New Tribes	seicha

Alternative forms

sheicha (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology 1

Compare shi (“to tear, to slash”), siicha (“to tear, to break”), soicha (“to scratch”). In other related languages, compare Kari'na seka (“to tear apart”). Possibly suffixed with -ka (privative verbalizer).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [sejt͡ʃa]

Verb

seicha (Caura River dialect, transitive)

(possibly) to cause (something) to shed or lose something, such as pieces of itself
1. to cut, to chop, to cut down (plants)
2. to sand down, to rub smooth, to polish

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Compare sichamü (“to secure with a rope”). Relation to the preceding etymology unclear.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [sejt͡ʃa]

Verb

seicha

(Caura River dialect, transitive) to tie

References

Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “seicha”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “shei'chadü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes 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^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021