petyma

Old Tupi

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Tupian *pe

Proto-Tupi-Guarani *tɨm

Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pe-tɨm

Proto-Tupian *-ap

Proto-Tupi-Guarani *-aβ?

Old Tupi -a

Old Tupi petyma

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pe-tɨm, from Proto-Tupian *pe.

Cognate with Guaraní petỹ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [peˈtɨ̃.ma]
• Rhymes: -ɨ̃ma
• Hyphenation: pe‧ty‧ma

Noun

petyma (possessable)

1. tobacco (any plant in the genus Nicotiana)
   • c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói, page 148; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:

     — Ererupe nde petyma?
     — Kó bé. Xe ratáte ogûé.
     — Na sasyî. Ne'ĩne endé, enhana seru nhemima; mbype emondarõ sesé.
     — Irõ! Xe îar, abebé. Kó tatá xe soagûera.
     — Eẽ, ké Tatapytera t'ogûapyk, ûĩme endé, iké Moroupîarûera.

     — Did you bring your tobacco? / — Here. But my fire went out. / — No problem. You there, go bring it in hiding; steal it from around here. / Here I am! My master, I flew. Here is the fire I went after. / — Yes, Tatapytera shall sit here, you there, Moroupîarûera here.

2. (by extension) cigar smoke

Derived terms

• petymamanimbyra
• petymbu
• petymbûaba
• Petymuku

 

Descendants

• Nheengatu: pitima
• → Brazilian Portuguese: petima
• → French: pétun

References

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “petyma”, 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 380, column 1