'ypîasó
Old Tupi
editEtymology
editBy surface analysis, 'y (“water source”) + -pe (“to”, directional, with movement) + a- (first-person-singular personal-number prefix) + só (“to go”), literally “I go to the water source”.
Pronunciation
editVerb
edit'ypîasó (first-person singular active indicative a'ypîasó, first-person singular negative active indicative n'a'ypîasóî, first-person singular gerund gûi'ypîasóbo, noun 'ypîasó) (intransitive)
- to go fetch water (from the source)
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of 'ypîasó (intransitive, oral vowel ending) (See Appendix:Old Tupi verbs)
Note: not all forms are attested, most of the table is reconstructed based on known patterns.
Further reading
edit- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “'ypîasó”, 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 531, column 1