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eshi

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See also: èshi, éshì, and èshì

Adja

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Noun

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èshì

  1. water

Further reading

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  • Eric Morley, A Grammar of Ajagbe (2011)

Japanese

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Romanization

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eshi

  1. Rōmaji transcription of えし

Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV eshi
Brazilian standard eshi
New Tribes eshi

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Verb

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eshi (intransitive, patientive)

  1. to tear, to be torn
  2. to scratch or slash oneself

References

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  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 227, 404:[yeši:ya] 'I am torn' [] yeshi:ya - I scratch/slash myself
  • 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:Is used with both a subj. and object; eši is used with subj. only.