eshi

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See also: èshi, éshì, and èshì

Adja[edit]

Noun[edit]

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èshì

  1. water

Further reading[edit]

  • Eric Morley, A Grammar of Ajagbe (2011)

Japanese[edit]

Romanization[edit]

eshi

  1. Rōmaji transcription of えし

Ye'kwana[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From e- (intransitivizer) +‎ shi (“to tear, slash, scratch”).

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

eshi

  1. (intransitive, patientive) to tear, to be torn
  2. (intransitive, patientive) to scratch or slash oneself

References[edit]

  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “-iši-”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “yeshi:ya”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
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