eshi

See also: èshi, éshì, and èshì

Adja

Noun

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èshì

1. water

Further reading

• Eric Morley, A Grammar of Ajagbe (2011)

Japanese

Romanization

eshi

1. Rōmaji transcription of えし

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	eshi
Brazilian standard	eshi
New Tribes	eshi

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [eʃi]

Verb

eshi (intransitive, patientive)

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

References

• 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, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021: “Is used with both a subj. and object; eši is used with subj. only.”