ixé

See also: ixe

French

Participle

ixé (feminine ixée, masculine plural ixés, feminine plural ixées)

  1. past participle of ixer

Nheengatu

Etymology

Inherited from Old Tupi ixé, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *it͡ʃe

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [iˈʃɛ]
  • Rhymes: -ɛ
  • Hyphenation: i‧xé

Pronoun

ixé

  1. (first-class) first-person singular personal pronoun (I, me)
    Ixé mira. Ixé asasá puranga.
    I am a person. I do well.
    Aé uputari uyuká ixé.
    He wants to kill me.
    Aé umeẽ manungara ixé arama.
    He gives something to me.

Usage notes
  • As a first-class pronoun, ixé is used as the subject (with the exception of second-class verbs, which are sometimes referred to as adjectives) and as the object of a sentence. The personal pronoun ixé is also used when governed by the postposition arama, which is occasionally omitted.

See also
Nheengatu personal pronouns
singular first-class pronoun second-class pronoun
first-person ixé se
second-person indé ne
third-person aé i
plural first-class pronoun second-class pronoun
first-person yandé yané
second-person penhẽ pe
third-person aintá (or tá) aintá (or tá)

References
  • Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2016) Curso de língua geral (nheengatu ou tupi moderno): a língua das origens da civilização amazônica‎ (in Portuguese), 2nd edition, São Paulo: Páginas & Letras, →ISBN, pages 11, 104
  • Marcel Twardowsky Ávila (2021) “ixé”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal]‎ (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, pages 353–354

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *it͡ʃe (“I, me”).[1]

cognates

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /iˈʃɛ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛ
  • Hyphenation: i‧xé

Pronoun

ixé (1st class, 1st person singular, dative ixébe, 2nd class xe)

  1. I, me (first person singular)
    Ixé oroîuká.
    I kill you.
  2. (uncommon) my, mine

Derived terms
  • ixé re'a
  • ixé re'ĩ
  • ixébe
  • ixébo

Descendants
  • Nheengatu: ixé (“I, me”)

See also
    Old Tupi personal pronouns
Person Number Nominative
Accusative		 Possessive Dative Objective
Subject 1st class 2nd class Nonreflexive Reflexive 1st class 2nd class
Singular 1st ixé xe ixébe xebe
2nd îepé endé nde endébe ndebe oro-
Singular and Plural 3rd a'e i o i xupé
Plural 1st exc oré orébe
1st inc îandé îandébe
2nd peîepé peẽ pe peẽme peme opo-
Indefinite asé asébe

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 200
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