moún
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Old Tupi
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Causative of un, from mo- (causative voice prefix) + un (“black”).
Verb
[edit]moún (first-person singular active indicative aîmoún, first-person singular negative active indicative n'aîmoúni, gerund moúna, noun moúna) (transitive)
- to dye black; to blacken
- to darken
- 1622, anonymous author, “T[i]ntureiro de panos”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica, volume 2 (overall work in Old Tupi and Portuguese), Piratininga, page 128; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, São Paulo: USP, 1953:
- Aomoundara.
- Dyer.
- (literally, “Cloth darkener.”)
Conjugation
[edit] Conjugation of moún (transitive, consonant ending) (See Appendix:Old Tupi verbs)
Note: not all forms are attested, most of the table is reconstructed based on known patterns.
References
[edit]- anonymous author (1622) “Tingir de preto”, in Vocabulario na lingoa Braſilica (overall work in Portuguese), Piratininga; republished as Carlos Drummond, editor, Vocabulário na Língua Brasílica, 2nd edition, volume 2, São Paulo: USP, 1953, page 128: “Aimoun [Aîmoún]”
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “moún”, 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 316, column 2