asébo
Old Tupi
Alternative forms
Etymology
From asé (“one, people”, indefinite personal pronoun) + -bo (“to”, dative with personal pronouns).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [aˈsɛ.βɔ]
- Rhymes: -ɛβɔ
- Hyphenation: a‧sé‧bo
Pronoun
asébo
- dative of asé
See also
Old Tupi personal pronouns
| Person | Number | Nominative／Accusative | Possessive | Dative | Objective | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | 1st class | 2nd class | Nonreflexive | Reflexive | 1st class | 2nd class | |||
| Singular | 1st | ixé | xe | ixébe／ixébo | xebe／xebo | ||||
| 2nd | îepé | endé | nde | endébe／endébo | ndebe／ndebo | oro- | |||
| Singular and Plural | 3rd | a'e | i | o | i xupé | ||||
| Plural | 1st exc | oré | orébe／orébo | ||||||
| 1st inc | îandé | îandébe／îandébo | |||||||
| 2nd | peîepé | peẽ | pe | peẽme／peẽmo | opo- | ||||
| Indefinite | asé | asébe／asébo | |||||||
Further reading
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “asébo”, 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 65, column 2