e'õ

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /-ɛˈʔɔ̃/

Noun

e'õ

  1. 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.
  2. R3 form of e'õ

Relational forms

Class : IIa

(Absolute form) t-e'õ

(R1) r-e'õ

(R2) s-e'õ

(R3) ∅-e'õ

Usage notes

  • The stem e'õ could never be used inside a sentence without a prefix. The absolute form te'õ was used whenever the noun was not possessed. The R1 form re'õ was for whenever the noun was preceded by a possessive pronouns of first and second person, or preceded by a noun in a genitive construction. The R2 form se'õ was for whenever the nouns was possessed by a pronoun of third person non-coreferencial. The possessive pronoun of third person i was not used for this forms. The R3 form e'õ was used with the coferencial possessive pronoun o.

References

  • Lemos Barbosa, A. Curso de Tupi antigo. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, 1956.
  • Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida. Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil. São Paulo. Global. 2013.
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