esé

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ese"

Old Tupi edit

Cognate with Guaraní rehe.

esé (pluriform, R1 resé, R2 sesé)

(sometimes with -sab) because; because of
Synonyms: ri, -reme, suí
alongside; with (in the company of)
Synonym: irũnamo
about
- 2005, Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, Método Moderno de Tupi Antigo: a língua do Brasil dos primeiros séculos, 3 edition, São Paulo: Global Editora, →ISBN, page 136:
  Xe sy gûé, takûakysetyba pupé Kurupira asepîak. Ndakeri xûé korine. Xe ma'enduar seséne.
  O my mother, I saw Kurupira in the canebrake. I won't sleep today. I'm going to remember about him.
(sometimes with -sab) in order to; so as to; to
- 2005, Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, Método Moderno de Tupi Antigo: a língua do Brasil dos primeiros séculos, 3 edition, São Paulo: Global Editora, →ISBN, page 134:
  Kunumĩ tatu îukarama resé ka'ape osó.
  The boy goes to the forest in order to kill an armadillo.
in the person of
against (contrary to; in conflict with)
as for
on the heels of
(indicating time) in; at
(indicating placement) on
(indicating placement, figurative) on
- 1687 [1621], Luís Figueira, Arte de grammatica da lingua brasilica (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Lisbon: Officina de Miguel Deslandes, page 166:
  Tupána recé aicó […]
  [Tupana resé aîkó […] ]
  On God I live.

^ Beatriz Carretta Corrêa da Silva (2010) Mawé/Awetí/Tupí-Guaraní: relações linguísticas e implicações históricas (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB, page 411

Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2005) chapter 10, in Método Moderno de Tupi Antigo: a língua do Brasil dos primeiros séculos‎^[1] (in Portuguese), 3 edition, São Paulo: Global Editora, →ISBN, As posposições pluriformes, pages 140–141
Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “esé”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil‎^[2] (in Portuguese), 1 edition, São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, pages 120–121, columns 1–2