etama

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *etam

Cognate with Mbyá Guaraní etã.

• IPA^(key): [ɛˈtã.ma]
• Rhymes: -ãma
• Hyphenation: e‧ta‧ma

etama (possessable, IIa class pluriform, absolute tetama, R1 retama, R2 setama)

1. land; homeland (traditional territory of an ethnic group)

   Synonym: aupaba

   • 1614, Claude d'Abbeville, quoting Itapucu, “HARANGVE FAICTE au Roy en preſence de la Reyne Regente ſa Mere par Itapoucou du depuis nommé Louys Marie au nom des Maragnans”, in Hiſtoire de la Miſsion des Peres Capucins en L'Iſle de Maragnan et terres circonuoiſines [History of the Mission of the Capuchin Fathers in the Island of Maranhão and surrounding lands] (overall work in French), Paris: Imprimerie de François Huby, page 341v:

     Dè angatouran etè erimahé apouyaue mondoüé cherétan à poupé […]

     [Nde angaturameté erimba'e, apŷaba, morubixaba, kyre'ymbaba mondóbo xe retama pupé […] ]

     You were very benevolent in the past, sending men, chiefs and warriors to my land.

2. dwelling; residence

   Coordinate terms: see Thesaurus:oka

   • 1618, Antônio de Araújo, chapter X, in Cateciſmo na Lingoa Braſilica [Catechism in the Brazilian Language], Livro Quinto do Cathecismo, e summa da Doctrina Christam [… ] (overall work in Old Tupi, Portuguese, and Latin), Lisbon: Pedro Crasbeeck, page 96:

     Cecobiárõbîrape temireco êtê, coipo menetè peretáme doâra?

     [Sekobîarõmbyrape temirekoeté koîpó meneté pe retãmendûara?]

     Should be replaced the true wife or true husband that are in your dwellings?

3. anthill^[1]

   Coordinate term: ysaubẽ

• Nheengatu: etama, tama

• Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “etama”, 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 122, column 1

From Proto-Bantu *-jìjama, positional form of Proto-Bantu *-jìja (“to come”).

-étama

1. to try

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• -ta