ye'ẽ
Mbyá Guaraní
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]ye'ẽ
Old Tupi
[edit]Noun
[edit]ye'ẽ (possessable)
- (hapax) pitfall (trap consisting of a concealed pit in the ground)
- — Marãnamope peîapó aîpó ye'ẽ? — Oroîapó, îagûara xe boîá ra'yra gûarûera mbo'asagûama resé.[1]
- — Why are you making that pitfall? — We are making it to catch the jaguar that ate my servant's son.
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 344
- anonymous author (1622) “Fojo pera tomar caça”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 1, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 141: “Ygeẽ [Ye'ẽ]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “ye'ẽ”, 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 525, column 1