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to shamanize

to shamanize

9.9
To enter a special state to talk with spirits and help people
  • verb
  • /ˈʃɑːməˌnaɪz/
: chamanizar
  • In order to help her patients, she often shamanizes by entering a trance to seek guidance from the spirit world.

Examples

  • Anthropologists observed several members of the community shamanizing to heal the sick.

  • The village elder was known to shamanize during important festivals.

  • She learned to shamanize as part of her people's spiritual tradition.

  • She shamanizes during the full moon.

  • He shamanized the ritual last week.

  • During the ceremony, the elder began to shamanize to communicate with the spirits of their ancestors.

  • He learned to shamanize through years of training with the community's spiritual leaders.

Surface Forms

shamanize infinitive
shamanized past
shamanized past participle
shamanizing present participle
shamanizes third person singular

Morphology

shamanize = shaman (transparent) = shaman + ize

The verb is a regular derivation from the noun 'shaman' with the productive verb-forming suffix '-ize', so the action is directly inferred.

Etymology

Shamanize comes from shaman, originally a Siberian word for a person who 'speaks with spirits', and the ending -ize, which means 'to make or do'. So, to shamanize is to act like a shaman, entering special states of mind to heal or to talk with the spirit world.