eõ
Old Tupi
FWOTD – 10 November 2015
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʔɛˈʔɔ̃/
Noun
eõ
- death
- 1618, Araújo (Antônio de), Catecismo na Língua Brasílica, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (Rio, 1952), page 315:
- Opá t-eõ îandé mo-ndyk-i.
- Death destroys us all.
- Opá t-eõ îandé mo-ndyk-i.
- 1618, Araújo (Antônio de), Catecismo na Língua Brasílica, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (Rio, 1952), page 315:
Usage notes
- The stem eõ could never be used inside a sentence without a prefix. The absolute form t-eõ was used whenever the noun was not possessed.
Verb
eõ
- to die
Usage notes
- For inanimate subjects, s-eõ was used, and for animate subjects, t-eõ.
- These forms were only used in infinitive and other conjugations derived from infinitive. In the indicative, imperative and gerund, the stem was manó.
References
- LEMOS BARBOSA, A. Curso de Tupi antigo. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, 1956.