monhang
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Old Tupi
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]monhang (first-person singular active indicative aîmonhang, first-person singular negative active indicative naîmonhangi, noun monhanga) (transitive)
- to make (to create)
- to make (to cause to)
- to make (to perform)
- to make (to behave, to act)
- to utter; to declare
- (with -ramo) to make into
- to scheme; to conspire; to engineer
- to model (to create from a substance)
Usage notes
[edit]In old texts, monhang and apó were commonly treated as syonyms. As these were written by Jesuits, it's unkown if native speakers used both verbs indiscriminately.
Descendants
[edit]- Nheengatu: munhã
Further reading
[edit]- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “monhang”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 307