îuká
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See also: Iuka
Old Tupi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *juka.[1] By surface analysis, aîura (“neck”) + ká (“to break”).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]îuká (possessable)
- verbal noun of îuká
Verb
[edit]îuká (first-person singular active indicative aîuká, first-person singular negative active indicative n'aîukáî, gerund îukábo, noun îuká) (transitive)
- to kill
- 1622, anonymous author, “Matar como quer”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 2 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 33; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:
- Aporojucâ.
- [Aporoîuká.]
- I kill people.
- to break
- Synonym: ká
- 1557, Hans Staden, chapter XXVI, in Warhaftige [Hiſtoria] , part 2 (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page:
- De kange Juca eypota kurine […]
- [Nde akanga îuká aîpotá korine […] ]
- I'll want to break your head today.
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of îuká (transitive, Î-starting, oral vowel ending) (See Appendix:Old Tupi verbs)
Note: not all forms are attested, most of the table is reconstructed based on known patterns.
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (2000 March 17) “Reconstruções Lexicais e Cognatos” (chapter III), in Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC, page 168, line 3
- ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “îuká”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil [Dictionary of Old Tupi: The Classical Indigenous Language of Brazil] (overall work in Portuguese), São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 197, column 2
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