Reconstruction:Old Tupi/umbyk

This Old Tupi entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Old Tupi

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ũˈmbɨk]
  • Rhymes: -ɨk
  • Hyphenation: u‧mbyk

Adjective

*umbyk (IIa class pluriform, R1 *rumbyk, R2 *sumbyk, noun form *umbyka)

  1. purple, dark[1]
Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Nheengatu: sumbika

References

  1. ^ Marcel Twardowsky Avila (2021) “sumbika”, in Proposta de dicionário nheengatu-português [Nheengatu–Portuguese dictionary proposal] (in Portuguese), São Paulo: USP, →DOI, page 718