itá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ita"

Old Tupi

Etymology

Cognate with Guaraní ita.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

itá (unpossessable)

1. rock; stone
2. (possessable) stone, when refering to pieces used to make tools

   Kysé xe itá pupé aîmonhang.

   I've made a knife with my stone.

3. crag
4. boulder
5. iron
6. (broadly) any metal
7. chains; shackles (restraint fit over a human or animal appendage)

Derived terms

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

 

Descendants

• Nheengatu: itá

References

• Pe. Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de Tupi Antigo: Gramática, Exercícios, Textos‎^[1] (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 (in Portuguese), 1 edition, São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, pages 191–192