sykyîé
Old Tupi
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editPronunciation
editNoun
editsykyîé (possessable)
Verb
editsykyîé (first-person singular active indicative asykyîé, first-person singular negative active indicative n'asykyîéî, first-person singular gerund gûisykyîébo, noun sykyîé) (intransitive)
- to fear; to be afraid [with suí or gerund ‘of something’]
- Synonym: nheangu
- 1618, Antônio de Araújo, chapter III, in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica [Catechism in the Brazilian Language], Livro Terceiro do Cathecismo, e summa da Doctrina Christam [… ] (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 55:
- […] Iudeos çuî ociquîyebo […]
- [ […] Judeus suí osykyîébo […] ]
- being afraid of the Jews
Conjugation
edit Conjugation of sykyîé (intransitive, S-starting, oral vowel ending) (See Appendix:Old Tupi verbs)
Note: not all forms are attested, most of the table is reconstructed based on known patterns.
Derived terms
editFurther reading
edit- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “sykyîé”, 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 451, column 2