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 [16th century catalogue of the Brazilian coast's fauna as documented by European authors]”, in Zoonímia tupi nos escritos quinhentistas europeus [Tupian zoonymy in 16th century European writings] (Arquivos NEHiLP; 3) (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: FFLCH-USP, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 257