seicha
Ye'kwana edit
Alternative forms edit
- sheicha (Cunucunuma River dialect)
Etymology 1 edit
Compare shi (“to tear, to slash”), siicha (“to tear, to break”), soicha (“to scratch”). In other related languages, compare Kari'na seka (“to tear apart”). Possibly suffixed with -ka (privative verbalizer).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
seicha (Caura River dialect, transitive)
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Compare sichamü (“to secure with a rope”). Relation to the preceding etymology unclear.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
seicha
- (Caura River dialect, transitive) to tie
References edit
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “seicha”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “shei'chadü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “imɨdɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021