eshi

== Adja == === Pronunciation === === Noun === èshì water === Further reading === Eric Morley, A Grammar of Ajagbe (2011) == Japanese == === Romanization === eshi Rōmaji transcription of えし == Ye'kwana == === Etymology === From e- (intransitivizer) +‎ shi (“to tear, slash, scratch”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [eʃi] === Verb === eshi (intransitive, patientive) to tear, to be torn 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[1], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021: “Is used with both a subj. and object; eši is used with subj. only.”