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