gûyrype
Old Tupi
Etymology
From gûyra (“bottom, lower part, bottom part”) + -y- (epenthetic linking vowel) + -pe (“in, on, at”).
Compare Guaraní guýpe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈwɨ.ɾɨ.pɛ]
- Rhymes: -ɨɾɨpɛ
- Hyphenation: gûy‧ry‧pe
Postposition
gûyrype
- below (in a specific sense)
- Paka onhemim ybyrá gûyrype, onhemombepa.[1] ― The paca hid below the tree, crouching down.
References
- ^ Antônio Lemos Barbosa (1956), Curso de tupi antigo: gramática, exercícios, textos [Course of Old Tupi: Grammar, Exercises, Texts] (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Livraria São José, page 193
Further reading
- Navarro, Eduardo de Almeida (2013), “gûyrype”, 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 141, column 2