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)/

Noun

shii (usually uncountable, plural shiis)

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

See also

Japanese

Romanization

shii

  1. Rōmaji transcription of しい

Ye'kwana

Etymology

From Proto-Cariban *titi.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ʃiː]

Noun

shii

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

Derived terms

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