gûyrype
Old Tupi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From gûyra (“bottom, lower part, bottom part”) + -y- (epenthetic linking vowel) + -pe (“in, on, at”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Postposition
[edit]gûyrype
- below (in a specific sense)
- Paka onhemim ybyrá gûyrype, onhemombepa.[1] ― The paca hid below the tree, crouching down.
References
[edit]- ^ Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, page 193
Further reading
[edit]- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “gûyrype”, 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 141, column 2