mãîa

Old Tupi

1750 manuscript where it reads Ereçauçub nde Paya? nde Maya iebyre?

Alternative forms

• manha

Etymology

Borrowed from Portuguese mãe.

Noun

mãîa (possessable)

1. mother

   Synonym: sy

   • 1687, João Filipe Bettendorff, “Dialogo I”, in Compendio da Doutrina Christãa […] (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Do que pertence á Fé, page 38, column 2; republished as José Mariano da Conceição Vellozo, editor, Lisbon: Offic. de Simão Thaddeo Ferreira, 1800:

     — Abápe erimbäé Tupã oimonhangypŷ ybŷ pôramo? — Acẽ rûbypŷ Adã acẽ mãy ypŷ Eva bé, cecómonhânga, toïcüáb oiâramo, omonhangâramo xe recó oiâbo.

     [— Abápe erimba'e Tupã oîmonhangypy yby poramo? — Asé rubypy Adão, asé mãîypy Eva bé, sekomonhanga, "t'oîkuab o îaramo, o monhangaramo xe rekó" o'îabo.]

     — Whom did God once make in the condition of inhabitant of earth? — The first father of the people Adam, the first mother of the people Eve as well, giving them laws, saying "may they know I am their own lord, their own creator."

Descendants

• Nheengatu: manha