yasí

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Nheengatu[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Inherited from Old Tupi îasy (“moon”).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /jaˈsi/
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Hyphenation: ya‧sí

Noun[edit]

yasí

  1. Moon
  2. lunar month (period from one new moon until the next)
  3. month (one of the 12 periods into which a year is divided)
  4. (obsolete, broadly) celestial body
  5. (archaic) menstruation
  6. (archaic) gestation

Derived terms[edit]

Verb[edit]

yasí

  1. (archaic, intransitive) to menstruate

References[edit]

  1. ^ Marcel Twardowsky Ávila (2021) “yasí”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal]‎[1] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, pages 859–860
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