sháa
sháa
woman
Part of Speech
Definition
Woman (KE) | the basic stages of growth for a female in Tlingit are « tʼukanéiyi » (baby), « shaatkʼiyátskʼu » (girl), « sháatkʼ » (adolescent female) « yées shaawát » (young woman), « yanwáat » (adult, elder), « shaawát sháan » (old woman) (KE) Sample Sentences
shaatkʼiyátskʼu - Adolescent girl | girl, female, adolescent | Alternate Spellings: shaatkʼiyátskʼu, shaatkʼiyétskʼu (C)
shaax’wsáani - Adolescent girls | girl, female, adolescent
–shaatkʼí - Girlfriend | young woman (unmarried, girlfriend); literally translates to "little woman" (KE)
shaatkʼ - Young woman (not married) | woman, female, teenager (KE)
–shaawádi - Wife, girlfriend | girlfriend (beyond adolescence) (KE)
Source
X̱ʼunei Lance Twitchell, Tlingit Dictionary, 2024shâ
Part of Speech
Sample Sentences
shàtk’iyátsk’u / shàtk’iyétsk’u - Adolescent girl (KE) | Jeff Leer, Doug Hitch, and John Ritter, Interior Tlingit Noun Dictionary, 2001, p. T65
shàx’wsâni - Adolescent girls | Jeff Leer, Doug Hitch, and John Ritter, Interior Tlingit Noun Dictionary, 2001, p. T65
–shàtkʼí - Girlfriend (KE) | Elizabeth Nyman and Jeff Leer, Gágiwduł.àt: Brought Forth to Reconfirm, 1993, p. xxvii-xxviii
shàtkʼ - Young woman (not married) (KE) | Jeff Leer, Doug Hitch, and John Ritter, Interior Tlingit Noun Dictionary, 2001, p. T65
–shàwádi /–shàwadí - Wife, girlfriend (beyond adolescence) (KE) | Jeff Leer, Doug Hitch, and John Ritter, Interior Tlingit Noun Dictionary, 2001, p. T65
Source
Leer Orthography; Jeff Leer, Doug Hitch, and John Ritter, Interior Tlingit Noun Dictionary, 2001, p. T62Additional Media
Twitchell 2024 (Lingít Dictionary)
sháatʼ-kátskʼu → girl.adolescent
sháa-xʼw-sáani → women.[plural].[diminutive plural]
sháatkʼ-í → young-(unmarried)-woman.[possessive]
shaat-kʼ → woman- (contracted).[diminutive]shaawát-i → woman.relational
shaawát + shaan → woman + old