sheene

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃiːn/
• Rhymes: -iːn

Adjective

sheene (comparative sheener, superlative sheenest)

1. Obsolete spelling of sheen.
   • 1887, Various, Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age‎^[1]:

     If Saphyres, loe! her eies be Saphyres plaine; / If Rubies, loe! hir lips be Rubies sound; / If Pearles, hir teeth be pearles, both pure and round; / If Yvorie, her forehead yvory weene; / If Gold, her locks are finest gold on ground; / If Silver, her faire hands are silver sheene: / But that which fairest is but few behold, / Her mind, adornd with vertues manifold."

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

• seene (Caura River dialect)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃeːne]

Adverb

sheene

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) being green or blue, grue
2. (Cunucunuma River dialect) being unripe, green

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “seene”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[2], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “she:ne, she:'na'to”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, page 302
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “šēne”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021