Datapoint Vincentian Creole/Female and male animals

Several morphemes denoting the sex of animals can be used in Vincentian Creole: man, oman, hi and shi. Whether they are productive when extended to what has been referred to as "rarer animals" is speculation.

Values

Preposed sex-denoting word

Example 7-274:
man laiyan
man
man
laiyan
lion
(male) lion
Example 7-275:
oman laiyan
oman
woman
laiyan
lion
lioness

Source: Prescod 2004: 77

Confidence:
Certain