kamby

Guaraní

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kamɨ.[1] By surface analysis, káma (“breast”) +‎ y (“water”).

Cognate with Old Tupi kamby.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kambɨ/
  • (Paraguayan Guarani, Eastern Guarani) IPA(key): [kaˈmbɨ], [kaˈmbɯ]
  • (Southwestern Guarani) IPA(key): [kaˈmbɨ], [kaˈmbɯ], [kə-]
  • Rhymes: -ɨ

Noun

kamby

  1. (cooking) milk

References

  1. ^ Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (17 March 2000) “Reconstruções Lexicais e Cognatos” (chapter III), in Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais‎[1] (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC

Old Tupi

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kamɨ.[1] By surface analysis, kama (“breast”) +‎ y (“liquid”).[2]

Cognate with Guaraní kamby.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kãˈᵐbɨ/
  • Rhymes: -ɨ
  • Hyphenation: ka‧mby

Noun

kamby (possessable)

  1. milk (white liquid produced by the mammary glands)
  • kambu
  • kamby'ok
  • kambyamĩ

Descendants

  • Nheengatu: kambí

References

  1. ^ Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (17 March 2000) “Reconstruções Lexicais e Cognatos” (chapter III), in Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais‎[2] (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC
  2. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kamby”, 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 214, column 2
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