shiichu

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	shiichu
Brazilian standard	shiichu
New Tribes	shiichu

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃiːt͡ʃu]

Noun

shiichu

1. baby

Derived terms

• shiichu ewüttü
• shiichu wamodetatojo
• shiichu weja'kadü
• shiichu'kö

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “shiichu”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “shi:'chu”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “šīʔčɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
• Lauer, Matthew Taylor (2005) Fertility in Amazonia: Indigenous Concepts of the Human Reproductive Process Among the Ye’kwana of Southern Venezuela‎^[3], Santa Barbara: University of California, pages 220, 231: “shichucä”