monhang
Old Tupi edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
monhang (first-person singular active indicative aîmonhang, first-person singular negative active indicative naîmonhangi, noun monhanga) (transitive)
- to make (to create)
- to make (to cause to)
- to make (to perform)
- to make (to behave, to act)
- to utter; to declare
- (with -ramo) to make into
- to scheme; to conspire; to engineer
- to model (to create from a substance)
Usage notes edit
In old texts, monhang and apó were commonly treated as syonyms. As these were written by Jesuits, it's unkown if native speakers used both verbs indiscriminately.
Descendants edit
- Nheengatu: munhã
Further reading edit
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “monhang”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 307