umã
Old Tupi
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editumã
- already
- c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói, page 26; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:
- Derori
tiniçemumã caõy- [Nde rory
Tynysem umã kaûĩ] - Be happy
The cauim already overflows
- [Nde rory
Further reading
edit- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “umã”, 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 497, column 1