shila

Chickasaw

Etymology

Cognate with Choctaw dry

Adjective

shila

  1. dry

Verb

shila (stative, intransitive)

  1. to dry
  2. to become dry

Inflection

Class II Verb Subjects (Stative)
Verbs beginning with a consonant. Singular Plural Inclusive Tri-Plural
1st-person (I, we) sashila
sa-shila		 poshila
po-shila		 haposhila
hapo-shila
2nd-person (you, you all) chishila
chi-shila		 hachishila
hachi-shila
3rd-person (he, she, it, they) shila (hoo)shila
(hoo-)shila
  • shilili

Choctaw

Etymology

Cognate with Chickasaw shila (“dry”)

Adjective

shila

  1. dry
  2. arid
  3. hoarse
  4. mealy
  5. dried, cured, evaporated, withered

Verb

shila

  1. to dry
  2. to become dry
  3. to cure (meat)
  4. to season (of wood)
  5. to bake (of earth)
  6. to evaporate
  7. to wither

Alternative forms

Romani

Noun

shila

  1. nominative plural of shil
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