eté

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ete"

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Noun

eté m (plural etens)

1. (Valencia) alternative spelling of etè

Old Tupi

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eté

1= akanga 2= obá 3= aîura 4= ati'yba 5= poti'a 6= puru'ã 7= ygé 8= akó 9= akûãîa 10-14= etymã 15-19= îybá

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛˈtɛ/
• Rhymes: -ɛ
• Hyphenation: e‧té

Etymology 1

Noun

eté (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute teté, R1 reté, R2 seté)

1. body
2. matter; substance

Derived terms

• etee'yma
• seteba'e

Etymology 2

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *eta (“too”). Doublet of etá.

Cognate with Paraguayan Guarani heta, -ete.

Noun

eté (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute teté, R1 reté, R2 seté)

1. truth; authenticity

   Synonyms: mba'eeté, supi, supikatu, supindûara

2. excellence

   Synonym: katûaba

3. normality

Adjective

eté (IIa class pluriform, R1 reté, R2 seté, noun form eté)

1. true; authentic; genuine
2. great; excelent
3. big; large

   Synonyms: katu, -usu

4. normal

   karaibeté

   layman

   (literally, “normal Christian”)

5. bigger
6. better
7. more; -er

Derived terms

• eteeté
• etekatu
• eteté
• eté nhẽ
• ka'aeté

Descendants

• Nheengatu: -ité

Adverb

eté

1. truly; truthfully

   Synonym: supi

2. much
3. very
4. too; overly

Synonyms

• katu
• katutenhẽ
• katuté

Descendants

• Nheengatu: reté (“very”)

References

• Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “eté”, 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, pages 122–123