See also: èshi

Adja edit

Noun edit

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èshì

  1. water

Further reading edit

  • Eric Morley, A Grammar of Ajagbe (2011)

Japanese edit

Romanization edit

eshi

  1. Rōmaji transcription of えし

Ye'kwana edit

Etymology edit

From e- (intransitivizer) +‎ shi (to tear, slash, scratch).

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

eshi

  1. (intransitive, patientive) to tear, to be torn
  2. (intransitive, patientive) to scratch or slash oneself

References edit

  • Hall, Katherine (2007), “-iši-”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “yeshi:ya”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University