yasí
Nheengatu edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Old Tupi îasy (“moon”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
yasí
- Moon
- lunar month (period from one new moon until the next)
- month (one of the 12 periods into which a year is divided)
- (obsolete, broadly) celestial body
- (archaic) menstruation
- (archaic) gestation
Derived terms edit
Verb edit
yasí
- (archaic, intransitive) to menstruate
References edit
- ^ Marcel Twardowsky Ávila (2021) “yasí”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal][1] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, , pages 859–860
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- Nheengatu terms inherited from Old Tupi
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- Nheengatu lemmas
- Nheengatu nouns
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- Nheengatu verbs
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- yrl:Time
- yrl:Calendar
- yrl:Menstruation
- yrl:Moon