petyma

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *petɨm, from Proto-Tupian *pe.[1][2]

Cognate with Guaraní petỹ.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [peˈtɨ̃.ma]
Rhymes: -ɨ̃ma
Hyphenation: pe‧ty‧ma

Noun

petyma (possessable)

tobacco (any plant in the genus Nicotiana)
- c. 1583, Joseph of Anchieta, Auto de São Lourenço [Play of Saint Lawrence], Niterói, page 148; republished in Eduardo de Almeida Navarro, transl., compiled by Maria de Lourdes de Paula Martins, Teatro, 2nd edition, São Paulo: Martins Fontes, 2006, →ISBN:
  — Ererupe nde petyma?
  — Kó bé. Xe ratáte ogûé.
  — Na sasyî. Ne'ĩne endé, enhana seru nhemima; mbype emondarõ sesé.
  — Irõ! Xe îar, abebé. Kó tatá xe soagûera.
  — Eẽ, ké Tatapytera t'ogûapyk, ûĩme endé, iké Moroupîarûera.
  Did you bring your tobacco? / — Here. But my fire went out. / — No problem. You there, go bring it in hiding; steal it from around here. / Here I am! My master, I flew. Here is the fire I went after. / — Yes, Tatapytera shall sit here, you there, Moroupîarûera here.
(by extension) cigar smoke

Derived terms

petymamanimbyra
petymbu
petymbûaba
Petymuku

Descendants

Nheengatu: pitima
→ Brazilian Portuguese: petima

References

Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (2000 March 17) Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais‎ (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC
Beatriz Carretta Corrêa da Silva (2010) Mawé/Awetí/Tupí-Guaraní: relações linguísticas e implicações históricas‎ (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB

Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “petyma”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 380, column 1

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