shá

See also: sha, shà, shā, shǎ, s'ha, and -sha

Ghomala'

Article

shá (variant of shə́)

plural of mú'

References

Gabriel M. Nissim, Le Bamiléké Ghomálá’ (1981)

Irish

Alternative forms

sháthadh (obsolete)

Pronunciation

(Munster, Connacht) IPA^(key): /hɑː/
(Ulster) IPA^(key): /ˈhaːhu/

Noun

shá

lenited form of sá

Khiamniungan Naga

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʃʰa⁵⁵/

Noun

shá

(Patsho) revenge

Verb

shá

(Patsho) In a position to hit something.

Mandarin

Romanization

shá (sha², Zhuyin ㄕㄚˊ)

Hanyu Pinyin reading of 啥

Navajo

Etymology 1

Postposition

shá

for me

Inflection

Forms of shá
	singular	duoplural
1st person	shá	nihá
2nd person	ná	nihá
3rd person	bá
4th person (3o)	yá
4th person (3a)	há
4th person (3i)	á	—
reflexive	ádá	—
reciprocal	—	ahá

See also

Etymology 2

From Proto-Athabaskan *šʷaˑ. Compare Ahtna saa, Beaver saa, Chipewyan saaʼ, Sekani sáa, Carrier saa. More distantly related to Ket и (īˑ, “sun”), via Proto-Yeniseian *xʷaj.

Noun

shá

sun

Derived terms

Related terms

shá bikʼehgo (“clockwise”)
shá bílghah (“all day long”)
shá bitłʼóól (“sunbeam”)
shąádáahjigo (“counter-clockwise”)
shą́ą́ʼ (“sunshine, sunny side”)
shą́ąʼjiʼ

References

Young, Robert, Morgan, William, Midgette, Sally (1992) Analytical lexicon of Navajo, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, →ISBN, page 468
Sharon Hargus, Keren Rice (2005) Athabaskan Prosody, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 82