putu'u

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *pɨtuʔu. By surface analysis, putu (“breath”) +‎ 'u (“to eat”). Cognate with Guaraní pytu'u.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [pu.tuˈʔu]
Rhymes: -u
Hyphenation: pu‧tu‧'u

Noun

putu'u (possessable, absolute mutu'u)

rest (any relief from exertion)
(LGA) Sunday^[1]

Related terms

putugûaba

Descendants

Nheengatu: mituú

Verb

putu'u (first-person singular active indicative aputu'u, first-person singular negative active indicative n'aputu'uî, first-person singular gerund gûiputu'ûabo, noun putu'u) (intransitive)

to rest (to take repose)

References

^ Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Dia de Domingo”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 151, column 1, line 8; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica (in Portuguese), Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI: “mutüú [mutu'u]”

Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “putu'u”, 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 413, column 2

[1] Anton Meisterburg (a. 1756) “Dia de Domingo”, in [Dicionário de Trier] (overall work in Portuguese and Old Tupi), Baixo Xingu, Pará, page 151, column 1, line 8; republished as Jean-Claude Muller et al., editors, Dicionário de língua geral amazônica (in Portuguese), Potsdam: University of Potsdam, 2019, →DOI: “mutüú [mutu'u]”

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