tjè

heart

Word · Noun

Example

Dan pa tjè.

Teeth are not hearts.

Also 'mind' and, by extension, the inner person — cf. the St Lucian dictionary's 'Si la ni dout an tjè'w, pa alé' (if there is any doubt in your mind, don't go).

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Supplied to the project, September 2026. Earlier attestation: proverbs published by John Jacob Thomas in 1869, pages 121-127 of The Theory and Practice of Creole Grammar (https://archive.org/details/theoryandpracti01thomgoog); GEREC-1 retranscription as compiled at https://trinlingual.wordpress.com/2018/03/02/trini-patois-proverbs/

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