ajisha

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies
ALIV	ajisha
Brazilian standard	ajiisha
New Tribes	ajiisha
historical ad hoc	ahisha

Alternative forms

ajissa (Caura River dialect)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ahiːʃa]

Noun

ajisha

the great egret, Ardea alba egretta

References

Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “ajissa”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ajiisha”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana‎^[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
Alberto Rodriguez, Nalúa Rosa Silva Monterrey, Hernán Castellanos, et al., editors (2012), “ajisha”, in Ye’kwana-Sanema Nüchü’tammeküdü Medewadinña Tüwötö’se’totojo [Guidelines for the management of the Ye’kwana and Sanema territories in the Caura River basin in Venezuela]‎^[3] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Spanish), Forest Peoples Programme, →ISBN
Ye’kwana nonoodö: yawaadeejudinnha wenhä = Território Ye’kwana: a vida em Auaris‎^[4] (overall work in Ye'kwana and Portuguese), São Paulo: ISA – Instituto Socioambiental, 2017, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 91: “ajiisha”
Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 385: “ahi:sha - large, white heron”
Hall, Katherine (2007) “tadāya”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[5], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021: “A blue-grey heron. Also mādi, small white h.; and ahīša, large white h.”
de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “ahisha”, in David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN