öisha

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Ye'kwana

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Variant orthographies
ALIV öisha
Brazilian standard äisha
New Tribes äisha

Alternative forms

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Pronunciation

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Adverb

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öisha

  1. (interrogative) where? (asking about location or destination of movement; also used in predicates without a copula and with finite verbs without an auxiliary copula, unlike öichö)
    • 2008, speaker ‘Anl’ from Boca de Piña (CtoWoshi.005), recorded in Cáceres, Natalia (2011), Grammaire Fonctionelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, page 355:
      ¿Össa küntaakö tüwü?
      Where was he going?

Derived terms

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References

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  • Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “össha”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana[1], Lyon, pages 266–267
  • Costa, Isabella Coutinho, Silva, Marcelo Costa da, Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021) “ässha”, in Portal Japiim: Dicionário Ye'kwana[2], Museu do Índio/FUNAI
  • Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 226, 283, 397:öisha 'where' [] öisha 'where' [] ö:isha - where
  • Hall, Katherine (2007) “ə̄iša”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021