mimby

Mbyá Guaraní

Noun

mimby

1. flute

Old Tupi

FWOTD – 15 June 2014

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *mimɨ. By surface analysis, emi- (passive deverbalizer prefix) +‎ py (“to flute”).

Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní mimby.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mĩˈᵐbɨ/
• Rhymes: -ɨ
• Hyphenation: mi‧mby

Noun

Mimbypepó

mimby (IId class pluriform, absolute mimby, R1 remimby, R2 semimby, R3 o emimby) (possessable)

1. flute; whistle
2. (broadly) any wind instrument

Usage notes

• This word is rendered as non-pluriform in some sources.

Derived terms

nouns

• mimbyapara
• mimbygûasu
• mimbypuku
• mimbypysara

 

Adjective

mimby (IId class pluriform, R1 remimby, R2 semimby)

1. having an wind instrument

Verb

mimby (first-person singular active indicative aîmimby, first-person singular negative active indicative n'aîmimbyî, noun mimby) (transitive)

1. to blow; to flute (to blow a musical instrument to make it give a sound)

   Synonym: py

Further reading

• Pe. Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de Tupi Antigo: Gramática, Exercícios, Textos‎^[2] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José
• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) 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, pages 99 and 280