Wiktionary

ypy

Guaraní edit

Noun edit

ypy

  1. origin; beginning

Old Tupi edit

Old Tupi numbers (edit)
1 2  → 
    Cardinal: oîepé
    Ordinal: ypy
    Adverbial: oîepé
    Collective: oîepegûasu
    Fractional: gûetépe

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ɨˈpɨ/
  • Rhymes: -ɨ
  • Hyphenation: y‧py

Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ʔɨpɨ (“base of a tree”), from Proto-Tupian *kˀɨpˀɨ (“tree trunk”).[1][2]

Cognate with Guaraní ypy.

Adjective edit

ypy

  1. original; initial (pertaining to the beginning, cause or origin)
  2. based (having a basis)

Adverb edit

ypy

  1. firstly; in the first place

Noun edit

ypy (possessable)

  1. origin; beginning; start
    Synonym: sy
  2. first (person or thing in the first position)
  3. base; basis; foundation (supporting, lower or bottom component of a structure or object)
  4. top (uppermost part)
  5. stalk; tree trunk
Descendants edit
  • Nheengatu: ipí

Numeral edit

ypy

  1. first

Etymology 2 edit

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Noun edit

ypy (IIb class pluriform, absolute typy, R1 rypy, R2 typy) (possessable)

  1. depth
  2. bottom
Descendants edit

Adjective edit

ypy (IIb class pluriform, R1 rypy, R2 typy)

  1. deep

Etymology 3 edit

Clipping of ypyrung.

Verb edit

ypy

  1. (transitive) to start

References edit

  1. ^ Beatriz Carretta Corrêa da Silva (2010) Mawé/Awetí/Tupí-Guaraní: relações linguísticas e implicações históricas‎[1] (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB
  2. ^ Aryon d'Alligna Rodrigues (2007) “As consoantes do proto-tupí”, in Aryon d'Alligna Rodrigues, Ana Suelly Arruda Câmara Cabral, editors, Línguas e culturas tupí‎[2], 1 edition, volume 1, Campinas: Curt Nimuendajú, pages 167–204

Further reading edit

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