kapi'i

Old Tupi

Alternative forms

  • kapi'ĩ

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *kapiʔi.[1] By surface analysis, ka'a (“leaf”) +‎ po'i (“slender”).[2]

Cognate with Guaraní kapi'i.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ka.piˈʔi]
  • Rhymes: -i
  • Hyphenation: ka‧pi‧'i

Noun

kapi'i (unpossessable)

  1. grass (ground cover plant)
  2. herb (plant whose stem is not woody)
    Synonym: ka'a
  3. hay (grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder)
  4. thatch (straw for covering roofs or stacks)

Descendants

  • Nheengatu: kapiĩ
  • → Portuguese: capim

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
  2. ^ Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “kapi'i”, 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 217, column 2
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