amỹîa

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• amũîa, amỹnha, ambynha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ãˈmɨ̃.ja]
• Rhymes: -ɨ̃ja
• Hyphenation: a‧mỹ‧îa

Noun

amỹîa (possessable, IIb class pluriform, absolute tamỹîa, R1 ramỹîa, R2 tamỹîa, female equivalent aryîa)

1. grandfather
   • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, “Na feſta de .ſ. L^ço [At the Saint Lawrence Festival]” (chapter XLIV), in [livrinho de variaſ poeziaſ] [Booklet of various poems], Niterói, page 142, lines 698–702; republished as Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, compiler, Poesias, São Paulo, 1956, page 718:

     Ycaõygoaçu pipo / xeramũya jaguaruna? / eneĩ taçobeipo, / eri, auyete paco / ayeguac uinhemouna

     [I kaûĩgûasupipó / xe ramũîa Îagûaruna? / Ene'ĩ! T'asabeypó! / Erĩ! Aûîeté pakó, / aîegûak ûinhemoúna...]

     By the way, does my grandpa Jaguaruna have much cauim? Come on! I'm gonna get drunk! Wait! Actually, I must adorn myself with black paint...

   • 1618, Antônio de Araújo, “Preguntas ſobre o Quuarto Mandamento” (chapter V), in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica [Catechism in the Brazilian Language], Livro Sexto do Confessionário [… ] (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 100v, line 7:

     Ereyoiaipe, ereyaópe, ereyangaópe nde ruba, de cî, nde ramuya, nde ariya?

     [Ereîoîaîpe, ereîa'ope, ereîanga'ope nde ruba, nde sy, nde ramũîa, nde aryîa?]

     Have you befooled, dishonoured, vituperated your father, your mother, your grandfather, your grandmother?

Noun

amỹîa (possessable, IIb class pluriform, absolute tamỹîa, R1 ramỹîa, R2 tamỹîa)

1. ancestor; foreparent
   • 1578, Jean de Léry, chapter 20, in Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, also called America] (overall work in Middle French), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, page 132:

     O pap cheramouyn maè pouaire aitih.

     [Opá xe ramỹîa ma'epûera aîtyk.]

     I've thrown away all my ancestors old belongings.

Derived terms

• tamũîa

See also

• Appendix:Old Tupi terms of family and kinship

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “amỹîa”, 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 34, column 2