sheene
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
sheene (comparative sheener, superlative sheenest)
- Obsolete spelling of sheen
- 1887, Various, Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age[1]:
- If Saphyres, loe! her eies be Saphyres plaine; / If Rubies, loe! hir lips be Rubies sound; / If Pearles, hir teeth be pearles, both pure and round; / If Yvorie, her forehead yvory weene; / If Gold, her locks are finest gold on ground; / If Silver, her faire hands are silver sheene: / But that which fairest is but few behold, / Her mind, adornd with vertues manifold."
Ye'kwana edit
Alternative forms edit
- seene (Caura River dialect)
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
sheene
References edit
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “seene”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[2], Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “she:ne, she:'na'to”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 302
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “šēne”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021