ashichadü

== Ye'kwana == === Alternative forms === öshichaadü (Cunucunuma River dialect) ashichadu (Brazil) === Etymology === Borrowed from Spanish azúcar, from Old Spanish açúcar, borrowed from Andalusian Arabic السكر (as-sukkar), from Arabic السُّكَّر (as-sukkar), borrowed from Middle Persian 𐭱𐭪𐭥 (šakar), borrowed from Gandhari 𐨭𐨐𐨪 (śakara), from Sanskrit शर्करा (śárkarā), from Proto-Indo-Aryan *śárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *ćárkaraH, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorkeh₂ (“gravel”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [aʃiːt͡ʃaɾ̠ɨ] === Noun === ashichadü (Caura River dialect) sugarcane, Saccharum officinarum === References === Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “ashichadü”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎[1], Lyon Costa, Isabella Coutinho; Silva, Marcelo Costa da; Rodrigues, Edmilson Magalhães (2021), “ashiichadu”, 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 228, 397: “[ëši:ča:dï] 'sugar cane' […] öshi:cha:dü - sugar cane” Hall, Katherine (2007), “əšīčādɨ”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎[3], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021 Monterrey, Nalúa Rosa Silva (2012), Hombres de curiara y mujeres de conuco. Etnografía de los indigenas Ye’kwana de Venezuela, Ciudad Bolívar: Universidad Nacional Experimental de Guayana, page 31: “asi'chadu”