meeshi

Ye'kwana

Etymology

Borrowed, perhaps from an Arawakan language; compare Chamicuro mishi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [meːʃi]

Noun

meeshi

1. cat

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “meeshi”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “me:shi”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “mēši”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021