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Reconstruction:Old Tupi/umbyk

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This Old Tupi entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Old Tupi

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ũˈmbɨk]
  • Rhymes: -ɨk
  • Hyphenation: u‧mbyk

Adjective

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*umbyk (IIa class pluriform, R1 *rumbyk, R2 *sumbyk, noun form *umbyka)

  1. purple, dark[1]
Declension
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Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Nheengatu: sumbika

References

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  1. ^ Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “sumbika”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 718