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. SingularPluralInclusive 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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