sykyîé
Old Tupi
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editThrough metathesis of kysyîé,[1] itself cognate with Emerillon kiʤe, Guajajára kyze, Guaraní kyhyje, Parakanã kyyxe, Tenharim kyhyji, Wayampi kyje, and Xingú Asuriní kyyje.
Pronunciation
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
editDescendants
edit- Nheengatu: sikié
References
edit- ^ Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, page 346
Further 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
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- Old Tupi words derived through metathesis
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- Rhymes:Old Tupi/ɛ
- Rhymes:Old Tupi/ɛ/3 syllables
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- Old Tupi terms with quotations from the Catechism in the Brasílica Language
- tpw:Fear