kopîasó
Old Tupi
editEtymology
editBy surface analysis, kó (“farm, plantation”) + -pe (“to”, directional, with movement) + a- (first-person-singular personal-number prefix) + só (“to go”), literally “I go to the farm”.
Pronunciation
editVerb
editkopîasó (first-person singular active indicative akopîasó, first-person singular negative active indicative n'akopîasóî, first-person singular gerund gûikopîasóbo, noun kopîasó) (intransitive)
- to go to the farm, plantation
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of kopîasó (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) “kopîasó”, 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 230, column 2