mungitá

Nheengatu

Alternative forms

• mukitá

Etymology

Inherited from Old Tupi mongetá.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mũɡiˈta/
• Rhymes: -a

Verb

mungitá

1. (transitive) to advise (to give advice to)
2. (transitive) to seduce (to entice or induce someone to engage in a sexual relationship)
3. (transitive) to flirt (to play at courtship)
4. (ambitransitive, Lower Amazon) to read

   Synonyms: maã, yumbué

   • 2016, chapter 4, in Florêncio Almeida Vaz Filho, Antônio Fernandes Góes Neto, editors, Nheengatu Tapajowara, 2nd edition (overall work in Nheengatu and Portuguese), Santarém: SELO Gráfica, →ISBN, page 30:

     Pesikári remupinima marandúa mayé remungitá waá.

     Search and write a history like the one you read.

Conjugation

Conjugation of mungitá
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative	affirmative	amungitá	remungitá	umungitá	yamungitá	pemungitá	umungitá
	negative	ti amungitá	ti remungitá	ti umungitá	ti yamungitá	ti pemungitá	ti umungitá
imperative	affirmative		remungitá		yamungitá	pemungitá
	negative		te remungitá		te yamungitá	te pemungitá

Related terms

• mungitasara
• mungitasawa
• mungitawera
• piamungitá
• purungitá
• yumungitá

References

• Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “mungitá”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 520