a'y

Cornish

Etymology 1

Contraction of a +‎ y.

Contraction

a'y (triggers soft mutation)

Contraction of a and y (“his”).

Etymology 2

Contraction of a +‎ hy.

Contraction

a'y (triggers aspirate mutation)

Contraction of a and hy (“her”).

Mbyá Guaraní

Noun

a'y (non-possessed form ta'y)

son (said by a man)

Conjugation

Possessed forms of a'y

singular			plural
1^st person	2^nd person	3^rd person	1^st person inclusive	1^st person exclusive	2^nd person	3^rd person
xera'y	ndera'y	ha'y	nhandera'y	orera'y	pendera'y	ha'y

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *aʔi, from Proto-Tupian *aʔi.

Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní a'i.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [aˈʔɨ]
Rhymes: -ɨ
Hyphenation: a‧'y

Noun

a'y (unpossessable)

brown-throated sloth (Bradypus variegatus)
Coordinate term: una'u

Descendants

Nheengatu: aí
→ Brazilian Portuguese: aí, aígue
- → English: ai

References

André Thevet (1557–1558) chapter 52, in Les singularitez de la France Antarctique [The singularities of France Antarctique] (overall work in Middle French), Paris: Maurice de La Porte, page 99: “Haüt [A'y]”
André Thevet (1575) chapter XIII, in La Coſmographie Vniuerſelle d’André Theuet [The Universal Cosmography of André Thevet], volume II (overall work in Middle French), Paris: Guillaume Chaudiere, page 940v: “Haüt [A'y]”
Jean de Léry (1578) chapter X, in Histoire d'un voyage fait en la terre du Bresil, autrement dite Amerique [History of a voyage to the land of Brazil, also called America] (overall work in Middle French), La Rochelle: Antoine Chuppin, page 165: “Hay [A'y]”
Gabriel Soares de Sousa (1587) chapter CVII, in Noticia do Brasil (overall work in Portuguese); republished as Francisco Adolpho de Varnhagen, editor, Tratado descriptivo do Brazil em 1587, Rio de Janeiro: Laemmert, 1851, page 257: “ahy [a'y]”
anonymous author (1622) “Perguissa, pello animal assi chamado”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 73: “Aig [A'y]”
Georg Marcgrave, Willem Piso (1648) chapter I, in Historia Naturalis Brasiliae [Brazilian Natural History], volume VI (overall work in Latin), Amsterdam: Elzevir, page 221: “Ai [A'y]”
Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “a'y”, 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 74, column 2
Nelson Papavero, Dante Martins Teixeira (2014) “Catálogo da fauna da costa brasileira no século XVI com os nomes tupis registrados pelos autores europeus”, in Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 257