ashichadü
Ye'kwana
| ALIV | ashichadü |
|---|---|
| Brazilian standard | ashiichadö |
| New Tribes | ashiichadö |
Alternative forms
- öshichaadü (Cunucunuma River dialect)
- ashichadu (Brazil)
Etymology
Etymology tree
Borrowed from Spanish azúcar, from Old Spanish açúcar, borrowed from Andalusian Arabic سكر (sukkar), from Arabic سُكَّر (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”