sha'wii
English: Translation
makes acorn mush, acorn mush
Part of Speech
verb
noun
Semantic Domain
Food, cooking and foodways
Dialect
Barona
Notes
Both a verb "makes acorn mush" and a noun for the acorn mush itself.
Can also refer to similar foods made with different ingredients, such as chokecherry seeds.
Shawii in most 'Iipay dialects. Ramon Ames' pronunciation may include a glottal stop: sha'wii (also seen in Los Conejos).