semu
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semu
- imperative of semi
Nheengatu edit
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Inherited from Old Tupi sem, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *t͡sẽp, from Proto-Tupian *tẽp.[1][2]
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semu
- (intransitive) to leave; to exit
- (intransitive) to end up (to bring to a conclusion)
- (intransitive) to happen; to result
- (intransitive) to appear
- (intransitive, of a celestial body) to rise
- (intransitive, of a plant) to bud; to sprout; to grow
- (intransitive, archaic) to be born
- 1909, Frederico Benício de Sousa Costa, “Elementos necessários para aprender o nheengatu”, in Carta pastoral de D. Frederico Costa, Bispo do Amazonas a seus amados diocesanos (overall work in Portuguese), Ceará: Typ. Minerva, page 172:
- Aé usemu Belém upé […]
- He was born in Bethlehem […]
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semu
- first-person plural present indicative tense of èssiri; (we) are.