membyra
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Old Tupi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *mẽmbyT, from Proto-Tupian *mẽpyT.[1] By surface analysis, mena (“husband”) + a'yra (“semen”).[2][note 1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]membyra (possessable)
Usage notes
[edit]- ^ In Tupian culture, women weren't seen as responsible for the conception of the children but a mere receptacle of the men's seed.
Coordinate terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Nheengatu: mimbira
References
[edit]- ^ Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo[1] (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB
- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “membyra”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 46, column 2
Categories:
- Old Tupi terms inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani
- Old Tupi terms derived from Proto-Tupi-Guarani
- Old Tupi terms inherited from Proto-Tupian
- Old Tupi terms derived from Proto-Tupian
- Old Tupi compound terms
- Old Tupi terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Old Tupi/ɨɾa
- Rhymes:Old Tupi/ɨɾa/3 syllables
- Old Tupi lemmas
- Old Tupi nouns
- Old Tupi possessable nouns
- tpw:Male family members
- tpw:Female family members