etá

See also: Appendix:Variations of "eta"

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *eta (“too”). Doublet of eté.[1]

Cognate with Guaraní heta, -ete.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɛˈta/
  • Rhymes: -a
  • Hyphenation: e‧tá

Noun

etá (IIa class pluriform, absolute tetá, R1 retá, R2 setá) (possessable)

  1. many; multitude (large number of people or things)
  2. crowd

Adjective

etá (IIa class pluriform, R1 retá, R2 setá)

  1. many; numerous

Adverb

etá

  1. many times
  2. too; overly
  3. (Late Tupi) -s; used to form plurals of nouns
    • 1618, Antônio de Araújo, chapter III, in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica […], Livro Primeiro da Doctrina Christam (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 23v:
      Emonanamo pe acè Yerurèo Sanctos età çupè?
      [Emonãnamope asé îeruréû santos-etá supé?]
      So we pray to the saints?
    • 1645 August 19, Antônio Filipe Camarão, Letter to Pedro Poti (Camarão Indians' letters; 1):
      Aimondo benhe xenheega opamenhe peeme xeraigreta.
      [Aîmondó benhẽ xe nhe’enga opamenhẽ peẽme, xe ra’yretá.]
      I send again my words to all of you, my sons.

Descendants
  • Nheengatu: -itá (“plural marker”)

References
  1. Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (2000 March 17) “Capítulo III - Reconstruções Lexicais e Cognatos”, in Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC, page 161
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