kisé

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Nheengatu

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old Tupi kysé (“knife”), from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kɨt͡ʃe (“knife”), from Proto-Tupian *kɨt͡ʃe (“bamboo”).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /kiˈse/[2]
    • (Alto Rio Negro, Solimões) IPA(key): [kiˈsɛ]
    • (Médio Amazonas) IPA(key): [kɨˈse]
  • Rhymes: -e
  • Hyphenation: ki‧sé

Noun

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kisé (plural kisé-itá)

  1. knife
    • 1890 [1872–1887], “Micura ariambá irumo [The opossum and the kingfisher]” (chapter XV), in João Barbosa Rodrigues, compiler, Poranduba Amazonense ou Kochiyma-uara Porandub, Rio de Janeiro: Typ. de G. Leuzinger & Filhos, page 193:
      U pecêca quicé umboé pirá maricá, u acema, paá, çateua micura pirá maricá opé, u manu u putare uana.
      He took the knife, cut open the fish's belly and found, they say, his opossum father-in-law about to die inside it.

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “kisé”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 393
  2. ^ Raynice Geraldine Pereira da Silva, Aline da Cruz, Michéli de Deus Lima Schwade (2020) “Descrição e documentação fonológica das variedades do nheengatu no Amazonas”, in Revista De Letras Norte@mentos (in Portuguese), volume 13, number 33, →DOI
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