mimby
Mbyá Guaraní
Old Tupi
FWOTD – 15 June 2014
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *mimɨ.[1] By surface analysis, emi- (passive deverbalizer prefix) + py (“to flute”).
Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní mimby.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mĩˈᵐbɨ/
- Rhymes: -ɨ
- Hyphenation: mi‧mby
Noun
Mimbypepó
mimby (IId class pluriform, absolute mimby, R1 remimby, R2 semimby, R3 og emimby) (possessable)
- flute; whistle
- (broadly) any wind instrument
Usage notes
- This word is rendered as non-pluriform in some sources.
Derived terms
nouns
- mimbyapara
- mimbygûasu
- mimbypuku
- mimbypysara
Verb
mimby (first-person singular active indicative aîmimby, first-person singular negative active indicative naîmimbyî, noun mimby) (transitive)
References
- Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (2000-03-17) Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC, archived from the original on 2023-09-05
Further reading
- Pe. Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956) Curso de Tupi Antigo: Gramática, Exercícios, Textos (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), 1 edition, São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, pages 99 and 280
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