zepi
Haitian Creole edit
Etymology edit
From French épi. In French, the plural form épi is commonly preceded by a determiner- such as aux, les or mes- whose final s or x is pronounced /z/ before vowels (and is otherwise silent). As a result, épi was reanalyzed in Haitian Creole as beginning with /z/.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
zepi
- ear (of corn)
References edit
- Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)
Kavalan edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Austronesian *dəpah.
Noun edit
zepi
References edit
- Paul Jen-kuei Li (李壬癸), Shigeru Tsuchida (土田滋) (2006) Kavalan Dictionary (噶瑪蘭語詞典) (Language and Linguistics Monograph Series; A-19)[1], Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, page 526