peteka
Nheengatu
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Tupi peteka. Semantic loan from Portuguese bater in senses 2, 3 and 4. First attested in 1853.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]peteka (plural peteka-itá)
Descendants
[edit]- → Brazilian Portuguese: peteca
Verb
[edit]peteka
- (transitive) to hit; to strike [with upé or esé ‘someone or something’]
- (transitive) to clap (to repeatedly strike two objects)
- (transitive) to flutter; to flap (to move the wings)
- (transitive) to wash
- (archaic, intransitive) to set off a trap
- (archaic, transitive) to bite
- Synonym: suú
Conjugation
[edit]| Conjugation of peteka | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||||||
| first | second | third | first | second | third | ||
| indicative | affirmative | apeteka | repeteka | upeteka | yapeteka | pepeteka | upeteka |
| negative | ti apeteka | ti repeteka | ti upeteka | ti yapeteka | ti pepeteka | ti upeteka | |
| imperative | affirmative | repeteka | yapeteka | pepeteka | |||
| negative | te repeteka | te yapeteka | te pepeteka | ||||
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “peteka”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, , page 591
Old Tupi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]peteka (possessable)
- inflection of petek:
Descendants
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