dijushi

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	dijushi
Brazilian standard	dijhuushi
New Tribes	dijuushi

Alternative forms

• dejushi (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [diçuːʃi]

Noun

dijushi

1. (Caura River dialect) the electric eel, Electrophorus electricus

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “dijushi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 388: “dehu:shi 'slide, earthquake' ^{[sic – meaning mistranslated from temblador]}”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “dehūši”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021