ixé

See also: ixe

French

Participle

ixé (feminine ixée, masculine plural ixés, feminine plural ixées)

1. past participle of ixer

Nheengatu

Etymology

Inherited from Old Tupi ixé, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *it͡ʃe

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [iˈʃɛ]

• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: i‧xé

Pronoun

ixé

1. (first-class) first-person singular personal pronoun (I, me)

   Ixé mira. Ixé asasá puranga.

   I am a person. I do well.

   Aé uputari uyuká ixé.

   He wants to kill me.

   Aé umeẽ manungara ixé arama.

   He gives something to me.

Usage notes

• As a first-class pronoun, ixé is used as the subject (with the exception of second-class verbs, which are sometimes referred to as adjectives) and as the object of a sentence. The personal pronoun ixé is also used when governed by the postposition arama, which is occasionally omitted.

See also

Nheengatu personal pronouns

singular	first-class pronoun	second-class pronoun
first-person	ixé	se
second-person	indé	ne
third-person	aé	i
plural	first-class pronoun	second-class pronoun
first-person	yandé	yané
second-person	penhẽ	pe
third-person	aintá (or tá)	aintá (or tá)

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2016) Curso de língua geral (nheengatu ou tupi moderno): a língua das origens da civilização amazônica‎^[1] (in Portuguese), 2nd edition, São Paulo: Páginas & Letras, →ISBN, pages 11, 104
• Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “ixé”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal]‎^[2] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, pages 353–354

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

• iche (obsolete)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *it͡ʃe (“I, me”).

cognates

• Amondawa ihe
• Kamayurá ije
• Manus Koro jihi
• Tapirapé ie
• Tembé ihe
• Tenharim ihi
• Wayampi ie
• Xingú Asuriní idže

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /iˈʃɛ/
• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: i‧xé

Pronoun

ixé (1st class, 1st person singular, dative ixébe / ixébo, 2nd class equivalent xe)

1. I, me

   Ixé oroîuká.

   I kill you.

2. (uncommon) my, mine

Derived terms

• ixé re'a
• ixé re'ĩ
• ixébe
• ixébo

 

Descendants

• Nheengatu: ixé (“I, me”)

See also

    Old Tupi personal pronouns

Person	Number	Nominative／Accusative			Possessive		Dative		Objective
		Subject	1st class	2nd class	Nonreflexive	Reflexive	1st class	2nd class
Singular	1st		ixé	xe			ixébe／ixébo	xebe／xebo
	2nd	îepé	endé	nde			endébe／endébo	ndebe／ndebo	oro-
Singular and Plural	3rd		a'e	i		o	i xupé
Plural	1st exc		oré				orébe／orébo
	1st inc		îandé				îandébe／îandébo
	2nd	peîepé	peẽ	pe			peẽme／peẽmo		opo-
	Indefinite		asé				asébe／asébo

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “ixé”, 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 202, column 2
• http://tupi.fflch.usp.br/