Nheengatu edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Old Tupi îasy (moon).[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /jaˈsi/
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Hyphenation: ya‧sí

Noun edit

yasí

  1. Moon
  2. lunar month (period from one new moon until the next)
  3. month (one of the 12 periods into which a year is divided)
  4. (obsolete, broadly) celestial body
  5. (archaic) menstruation
  6. (archaic) gestation

Derived terms edit

Verb edit

yasí

  1. (archaic, intransitive) to menstruate

References edit

  1. ^ Marcel Twardowsky Ávila (2021) “yasí”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal]‎[1] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, pages 859–860