eshi
See also: èshi
Adja edit
Noun edit
èshì
Further reading edit
- Eric Morley, A Grammar of Ajagbe (2011)
Japanese edit
Romanization edit
eshi
Ye'kwana edit
Etymology edit
From e- (intransitivizer) + shi (“to tear, slash, scratch”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
eshi
- (intransitive, patientive) to tear, to be torn
- (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