See also: Appendix:Variations of "ii"

Nheengatu

Etymology

Inherited from Old Tupi ‘y (water, river, spring), from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *ʔɨ, from Proto-Tupian *ʔɨ (water).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [i.ˈʔi]
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Hyphenation: i‧í

Noun

  1. water
    Aú-putari , nhaãsé se isí aikú.
    I want to drink water, because I am thirsty.
    • 2021, Marcel Twardowsky Ávila, O Novo Testamento em nyengatu, Apocalipse 12:15, quoted in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu–português, page 315:
      Asuí kwá buya utumana i yurú suí kwayé paraná yawé.
      And the serpent spat water out of its mouth as if it were a river.

Derived terms

adjectives
  • ií yawé
nouns
  • iiwasú
  • iiyara
  • ií-iwindayái
  • ií-kiwa
  • ií-kwara
  • ií-rirú
  • ií-rukena
  • ií-saí
  • ií-taya
  • ií-wawaka
  • ií-yuirisawa
  • ií-yuiyuirisawa
  • ií-yuíri
  • tupana-ií

References

  1. Beatriz Carretta Corrêa da Silva (2010) Mawé/Awetí/Tupí-Guaraní: relações linguísticas e implicações históricas (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB, page 403
  2. Marcel Twardowsky Ávila (2021) “ií”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 315

Further reading

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