kapi'i
Old Tupi
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editInherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kapiʔi.[1] By surface analysis, ka'a (“leaf”) + po'i (“slender”).[2]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editkapi'i (unpossessable)
- grass (ground cover plant)
- herb (plant whose stem is not woody)
- Synonym: ka'a
- hay (grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder)
- tatch (straw for covering roofs or stacks)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- ^ Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (2000 March 17) “Reconstruções Lexicais e Cognatos” (chapter III), in Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais[1] (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC
- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kapi'i”, 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 217, column 2
Categories:
- Old Tupi terms inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani
- Old Tupi terms derived from Proto-Tupi-Guarani
- Old Tupi compound terms
- Old Tupi terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Old Tupi/i
- Rhymes:Old Tupi/i/3 syllables
- Old Tupi lemmas
- Old Tupi nouns
- Old Tupi unpossessable nouns
- tpw:Grasses
- tpw:Building materials
- tpw:Roofing
- tpw:Agriculture