sheicha

Ye'kwana

Alternative forms

• seicha (Caura River dialect)

Etymology

Compare shi, siicha, soicha.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃejt͡ʃa]

Verb

sheicha

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect, transitive) The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
   1. to cut, to chop
   2. to sand down, to rub smooth, to polish
   3. to tie

Usage notes

Hall 1988, Hall 2007, and Cáceres 2011 each list this word as having an entirely different meaning.

Derived terms

• shecha'jüdü

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