shii

See also: shií, shíi, shį́į́, shiiʼ, and Shi'i

English

Etymology

Pronunciation spelling of shit. Represents a pronunciation with the final consonant deleted (a possible realization in African-American Vernacular English). Compare bih, ahh.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɪ(ː)/

Audio (US):

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Noun

shii (usually uncountable, plural shiis)

1. (African-American Vernacular) Pronunciation spelling of shit.

See also

• shii tree

Japanese

Romanization

shii

1. Rōmaji transcription of しい

Ye'kwana

Variant orthographies

ALIV	shii
Brazilian standard	shii
New Tribes	shii

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *titi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ʃiː]

Noun

shii

1. sun
2. an indeterminate unit of time: hour, moment

Derived terms

• shii awono ökato
• shii ekato

 

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “shii”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana‎^[1], Lyon
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University, pages 223, 227, 398: “[ši:'] 'sun' […] shi: - sun”
• Hall, Katherine (2007) “šī”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series‎^[2], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021