embi'u
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Old Tupi
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *emiʔu. By surface analysis, emi- (passive marker) + 'u (“to eat”).
Cognate with Paraguayan Guaraní tembi'u.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]embi'u (IIa class pluriform, absolute tembi'u, R1 rembi'u, R2 sembi'u) (possessable)
- food; meal; dish
- Synonym: i 'upyra
- 1557, Hans Staden, chapter XXI, in Warhaftige [Hiſtoria und] beſchꝛeibung eyner Landtſchafft der wilden nacketen/grimmigen menſchfreſſer leuthen/in der newenwelt America gelegen [True history and description of a land of wild, naked, fierce man-eating people located in the New World of America] (overall work in German), Marburg: Andreas Kolbe, unnumbered page:
- A Juneſche been ermi vramme
- [Aîune ixé, pe remi'urama.]
- I come, your future food.
- 1618, Antônio de Araújo, “Do ſinal da Sancta Cruz, & mais oraçoens” (chapter I), in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica [Catechism in the Brazilian Language], Livro Primeiro da Doctrina Christam (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, Padre noſso, page 13v:
- Orê remiu
Ara yabiõ ndoâra
Eimeeng cori orebe.- [Oré remi'u / 'ara îabi'õndûara / eîme'eng kori orébe.]
- Give us this day our daily bread.
- (literally, “Give us today our daily food.”)
Further reading
[edit]- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “embi'u”, 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 98, column 2
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