seicha

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	seicha
Brazilian standard	seicha
New Tribes	seicha

Alternative forms

• sheicha (Cunucunuma River dialect)

Etymology 1

Compare shi (“to tear, to slash”), siicha (“to tear, to break”), soicha (“to scratch”). In other related languages, compare Kari'na seka (“to tear apart”). Possibly suffixed with -ka (privative verbalizer).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sejt͡ʃa]

Verb

seicha (Caura River dialect, transitive)

1. (possibly) to cause (something) to shed or lose something, such as pieces of itself
   1. to cut, to chop, to cut down (plants)
   2. to sand down, to rub smooth, to polish

Derived terms

• eseicha
• shecha'jüdü

 

Etymology 2

Compare sichamü (“to secure with a rope”). Relation to the preceding etymology unclear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sejt͡ʃa]

Verb

seicha

1. (Caura River dialect, transitive) to tie

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “seicha”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “shei'chadü”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “imɨdɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021