itá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ita"

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ita, from Proto-Tupian *wɨca.

Cognate with Guaraní ita.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [iˈta]
• Rhymes: -a
• Hyphenation: i‧tá

Noun

itá (unpossessable)

1. rock; stone
2. crag
3. boulder
4. (Late Tupi) iron
5. (Late Tupi, broadly) any metal
6. (Late Tupi) chains; shackles (restraint fit over a human or animal appendage)

Noun

itá (possessable)

1. stone, when refering to pieces used to make tools

   Kysé xe itá pupé aîmonhang.

   I've made a knife with my stone.

Derived terms

• itaekobé
• itaeté
• itamembeka
• itanema
• itaîuba
• itaîyka

 

Descendants

• Nheengatu: itá

References

• Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts]‎^[2] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “itá”, 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, pages 191–192