'ypîasó
Appearance
Old Tupi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]By surface analysis, 'y (“water source”) + -pe (“to”, directional, with movement) + a- (first-person-singular personal-number prefix) + só (“to go”), literally “I go to the water source”.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]'ypîasó (first-person singular active indicative a'ypîasó, first-person singular negative active indicative n'a'ypîasóî, noun 'ypîasó) (intransitive)
- to go fetch water (from the source)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of 'ypîasó (intransitive, oral vowel ending) (See Appendix:Old Tupi verbs)
Note: not all forms are attested, most of the table is reconstructed based on known patterns.
Further reading
[edit]- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “'ypîasó”, 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 531, column 1