wasemu

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Nheengatu

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Tupi gûasem, from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *w-acẽP, from Proto-Tupian *atẽP.[1][2]

Verb

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wasemu

  1. to find (to come across something that was unknown or had been lost)
  2. to find (to have the opinion that a given thing has the given quality)

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Andrey Nikulin (2020) Proto-Macro-Jê: um estudo reconstrutivo‎[1] (in Portuguese), Brasília: UnB
  2. ^ Marcel Twardowsky Ávila (2021) “wasemu”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 817
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