gûé
Old Tupi
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈwɛ]
- Rhymes: -ɛ
- Hyphenation: gûé
Interjection
gûé
- (men's speech) O (vocative particle)
- Synonym: gûy
- c. 1628, Luís Figueira, Arte da lingua Braſilica [Art of the Brasílica Language][1] (overall work in Portuguese), Lisbon: Manuel da Silva, page 6:
- Xerubgué.
- [Xe ruby gûé!]
- O my father!
Further reading
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “gûé”, 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 137, column 1