esá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "esa"

Nheengatu

Etymology

Inherited from Old Tupi esá, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tsetsa, from Proto-Tupian *(e-)t͡sa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /eˈsa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: e‧sá

Noun

esá (IIa class pluriform, plural esá-itá, absolute tesá, R1 resá, R2 sesá)

1. eye
   • 1973, Henry Loewen, Paulo Martinho, Sophie Müller, “Juão 9:17”, in O Novo Testamento em Nyengatu‎^[3], 1 edition, Manaus: Missão Novas Tribos, translation of Holy Bible:

     Asui aintaupurandu mukuĩsawa kua sesaimawaa kuera: — Maitaa rembeu sese nyãse upirari neresa ae?

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. vision; sight
   • 1853, Manoel Justiniano de Seixas, “Tatá-tinga”, in Vocabulario da lingua indigena geral para o uso do Seminario Episcopal do Pará‎^[4], Belém: Typ. de Mattos e Compª, page 57:

     […] tatá-tinga muturêê sê rêçá.

     The smoke blocks my sight.

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tsetsa, from Proto-Tupian *(e-)t͡sa.

Cognate with Guaraní tesa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛˈsa/
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: e‧sá

Noun

esá (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute tesá, R1 resá, R2 sesá)

1. eye
2. vision; sight

   Synonym: esapysó

Derived terms

• esaapytãpytang
• esaarugûá
• esaba
• esabanga
• esaetá
• esaeté
• esagûyrumbyka
• esagûyryba
• esakûarasy
• esakûarorẽ
• esakûarorẽmuku
• esakûarûemba'easy
• esakûasopuku
• esakûasó
• esaoby
• esarorẽ
• esatinga
• esaynhusu
• esaîuba
• esaúna
• esápe
• gûesapopybo
• gûesapopybonhote
• Tebiresá

 

Descendants

• Nheengatu: esá

Adjective

esá (IIa class pluriform, R1 resá, R2 sesá, noun form esá)

1. eyed (having eyes)

   Kunumĩ sesating

   The boy is blue-eyed

Further reading

• Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts]‎^[5] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “esá”, 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 117, columns 1–2