shidichö

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	shidichö
Brazilian standard	shidiichä
New Tribes	shidiichä
historical ad hoc	shiriche

Alternative forms

• sidichö (Caura River dialect)

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *tirikô.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃiɾ̠iːt͡ʃə]

Noun

shidichö (Cunucunuma River dialect)

1. star
2. a year’s time
3. any one of the points at which the fibers of a woven tray (waja) interlock

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “sidichö”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “shidi:chö”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “šidīčə”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• de Civrieux, Marc (1980) “shiriche”, in  David M. Guss, transl., Watunna: An Orinoco Creation Cycle, San Francisco: North Point Press, →ISBN, page 190
• Briceño, Luis García (2024) Walking with Jesus in indigenous Amazonia: for an anthropology of paths‎^[3], London: London School of Economics and Political Science, page 81: “shidicha”