etá
See also: Appendix:Variations of "eta"
Old Tupi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʔɛˈta/, /sɛˈta/
Determiner
etá
- many
Usage notes
- The stem etá could never be used inside a sentence without a prefix. When modifying nouns, the noun itself would be agglutinated with the adjective (as nouns always precede adjectives in Tupi). This word hasn't been attested in predicative positions, always being replaced for certain intransitive verbs, which explains the absence of the form tetá. In other contexts, the form setá was used.
References
- LEMOS BARBOSA, A. Curso de Tupi antigo. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, 1956.