ka'apîasó
Old Tupi
editEtymology
editBy surface analysis, ka'a (“woods”) + -pe (“to”, directional, with movement) + a- (first-person-singular personal-number prefix) + só (“to go”), literally “I go to the woods”.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editka'apîasó (first-person singular active indicative aka'apîasó, first-person singular negative active indicative n'aka'apîasóî, first-person singular gerund gûika'apîasóbo, noun ka'apîasó) (intransitive)
- to defecate, to go defecate
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of ka'apîasó (intransitive, oral vowel ending) (See Appendix:Old Tupi verbs)
Note: not all forms are attested, most of the table is reconstructed based on known patterns.
Further reading
edit- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “ka'apîasó”, 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 209, column 1