monhang

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ̃.ɲˈãŋ/
• Rhymes: -ãŋ
• Hyphenation: mo‧nhang

Verb

monhang (first-person singular active indicative aîmonhang, first-person singular negative active indicative n'aîmonhangi, noun monhanga) (transitive)

1. to make (to create)
2. to make (to cause to)
3. to make (to perform)
4. to make (to behave, to act)
5. to utter; to declare
6. (with -ramo) to make into
7. to scheme; to conspire; to engineer
8. to model (to create from a substance)

Usage notes

In old texts, monhang and apó were commonly treated as syonyms. As these were written by Jesuits, it's unkown if native speakers used both verbs indiscriminately.

Descendants

• Nheengatu: munhã

Further reading

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “monhang”, 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 307